Stability of ext4

[Liam Proven]

On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Ioannis Vranos
<cppdeveloper at ontelecoms.gr> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>
> The first Ubuntu support for ext4 was with Ubuntu 9.04. However it was
> problematic, ext4 was easily losing data.
>
> In 9.10 ext4 looks stable. However AFAIK there were issues when
> migrating to Ubuntu 9.10 from Ubuntu 9.04 ext4 partitions.
>
>
> So, now I consider ext4 to be stable for stand alone installations,
> however I am concerned whether ext4 is still "under development", and
> about its implementation to be changed in the future.
>
>
> My question is this. Can I be sure that an ext4 partition made with the
> default options under 9.10, will be portable in the future among
> different versions of Ubuntu and among different Linux distributions?

It's a filesystem, not anything directly to do with the distribution
/per se./ So long as you have a recent enough kernel version to
support the FS and it's either compiled in or available as a module,
yes, it will work.


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