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Gordon Henderson wrote: > On Wed, 27 May 2009, Paul Hirst wrote: > >> On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 08:22 +0100, Gordon Henderson wrote: >>> Anyone using ext4 yet? >> I've used it on a few desktops where I've installed Ubuntu Jaunty. I >> haven't seen it crash yet :-) >> >> That's about all I can offer for advice. Which I admit is next to >> useless! I've actually just started using XFS on a few servers where >> ext3 wasn't going to cut the mustard. > > That's good enough for me to start with. I've got a week before I ship > this box, so I'll make one partition ext4 and have a a play with it! > > However I used XFS in the past, but got bitten with file system > corruptions and losses after crashes and "RTFM" type replies from the XFS > mailling list. That an lack of a good fsck for it caused me to un-check it > from my kernel compile and wave it goodbye. This was a few years ago, > however once bitten... I have heard rumours that RedHat have abandoned ext4 in favour of XFS for their future releases. I'll believe it when I see it though. James -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html