to ext4 or not...

[Jarod Wilson]

On Jun 21, 2009, at 9:05 PM, David Kramer <david-8uUts6sDVDvs2Lz0fTdYFQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Stephen Adler wrote:
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> I just upgraded my desktop to fedora 11. The way I set up my system  
>> is
>> with my home directory in a separate partition so that if I want to  
>> do
>> an upgrade by reinstalling fedora, I can then reformat / and /boot
>> leaving /home directory is untouched.
>>
>> But now there is ext4. So, should I leave /home as an ext3 file  
>> system?
>> Or should I go through the trouble of backing up /home,  
>> reformatting to
>> ext4 and restoring? Currently / is now ext4.
>
> I would vote for a resounding "No".  If you'll remember, I posted a  
> few
> weeks ago how my wife's mail file was getting clobbered and corrupted
> after rebuilding my server on Ubuntu Jaunty and using ext4 for my root
> partition.

Not all ext4's are created equal. Red Hat has ext4 developers on staff  
who did a bunch of work to shore it up for Fedora 11. Kernel 2.6.29.4  
and later have several key fixes that may not be in Ubuntu's 2.6.28.

--jarod