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[Jarod Wilson]

On Jun 11, 2009, at 2:22 PM, Nathan Meyers wrote:

> david-8uUts6sDVDvs2Lz0fTdYFQ at public.gmane.org wrote:
>> - It could be that I'm using ext4, which might not have been a  
>> smart thing.
>>
> I gave up on ext4 because it kept crashing the three systems on  
> which I
> (rashly) adopted it when upgrading to Jaunty. I was never able to
> capture useful crash information, but rebuilding those filesystems as
> ext3 solved the problem. May not be relevant to your situation, but  
> ext4
> isn't ready for prime time.

Not if your distro's kernel people aren't extensively testing it and  
don't have the chops to fix issues themselves, it isn't. (Yes, that's  
a thinly veiled shot at Canonical... ;)

I have multiple machines that have been running with ext4 filesystems  
for quite some time, very few problems to speak of. Its the default fs  
in Fedora 11, and its pretty damned solid there.

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Jarod Wilson
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