[Klug-general] Be careful with ext4

Peter Frost P.Frost at kent.ac.uk
Mon Jun 29 12:29:34 UTC 2009


George Prowse wrote:
> Peter Childs wrote:
> No, my point is that everything they have made in the past 7 years has 
> eaten data, nothing is stable - unlike the others like ext3, reiserfs, 
> xfs, jfs and ntfs. Reiser4, ext4 and winfs have all turned out to be too 
> unstable


IIRC it took 16 kernel revisions after ReiserFS made it into the 
mainline kernel before Namesys was willing to call it "stable". I say 
it's too early to judge ext4...



Peter



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