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Re: [LUG] ext4, anyone?

 

Gordon Henderson wrote:
>
> Anyone using ext4 yet?
>
> Building a new server for a client and am thinking about it - it all 
> seems well supported in Debian Lenny and the 2.6.29 kernel. Probably 
> no advantage over ext3 for this application, but it might be good to 
> eek every ounce out of the disks (it's going to be a busy little LAMP 
> box)
>
> Incidentally - the disk are WDC 640GB dual platter jobbies. Very fast 
> for a 7200 RPM drive - relatively cheap too! (£45) I'm seeing 
> transfers of over 110MB/sec out of a single drive.
>
> Gordon
I'm using ext4 on my notebook for the / partition, so far not had any 
problems even after a power failure.  I haven't started using it for my 
/home partition just yet, I'm still using ext3 for that as I did read 
something about possible data corruption but I gather it has now been fixed.

Rob



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