ext4 in Intrepid?
Matt Zimmerman
mdz at ubuntu.com
Wed Aug 13 19:45:04 UTC 2008
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 09:32:31AM +1000, Chris Jones wrote:
> I've been following the development of ext4 for what seems like an
> eternity.
>
> >From what I understand, the latest Fedora 9 release features ext4
> support. So too do many other popular distros. And what I can't
> understand is why Ubuntu still doesn't feature any support for ext4, to
> my knowledge.
>
> I was hoping that the developers could shed some light on the reasons as
> to why. And will it perhaps make its way into Intrepid? If not, when we
> will see support for ext4 in Ubuntu.
The reasons are, in no particular order:
* There hasn't been a driving need for it (contrast with, say, improved
NTFS filesystem support)
* It isn't stable yet. The developers still recommend caution and lots of
backups
* Tool support (e2fsprogs) wasn't released in a stable version until last
month (July)
* The developers highly recommend tracking out-of-tree kernel patches, even
for 2.6.26 (our current kernel in Intrepid)
It looks as if it may be worth a more serious look in the next release cycle
after 8.10.
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- mdz
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