[Klug-general] Be careful with ext4

[HippyChick]

On Sun, 2009-06-28 at 11:16 +0100, J D Freeman wrote:
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> On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 11:08:17AM +0100, Michael E. Rentell wrote:
> > My experience was salutary - and I just wanted other members of the 
> > group to be warned. As I said, those with knowledge would know but 
> > perhaps others in the group are just simple users like me. I was just 
> > trying to help, a bit.
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> I had had a debate recently with some friends about the risks of moving to
> ext4, your experience seems to add to a growing wealth of terror stories
> about ext4 that just indicate it isn't quite ready for the primetime yet.
> 
> File system choice is always a fun one, I tend to take the approach of
> using the one that has the best understood tooling, which means ext2 and
> ext3. I used reiserfs for a while, but unfortunately the failure mode for
> reiser seems to be total, where as with abit of patience, some handy
> commands and abuse of dd, you can do wonders to reconstruct ext2/3. 
> 
> I will give ext4 a wide berth for abit longer. I am sure when it is ready
> it will be wonderful, but for now, I'll just watch.
> 
> J

I've been running EXT4 for a few months now on my laptop and i havent
had a problem yet, just lucky i guess :)

HippyChick