File Systems

[NoOp]

On 03/28/2009 06:17 AM, Nils Kassube wrote:
> Karl F. Larsen wrote:
>>     I have loaded Jaunty Beta twice, and have done a full update on
>> this computers Jaunty. All is fine, but I was stopped 2 times because
>> the loader was going to use the ext2 file system, but I wanted the
>> ext3 file system and found that and both are using it.
> 
> You could change an ext2 system to ext3 with a simple command 
> (tune2fs -j), so ext2 would have been no real problem.
> 
>>     But I noted there is now a ext4 file system. Does anyone know why
>> I should use ext4 :-)
> 
> I could only tell you why you should NOT use ext4. It is still 
> experimental and some people lost some files.
> <https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/317781>
> 
> 
> Nils
> 

Plus there are grub issues, etc:

http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/jaunty/beta#Ext4
<http://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ext4_Howto#Converting_an_ext3_filesystem_to_ext4>