Problem upgrading an offline computer

[Colin Law]

On 11 February 2011 17:20, Ioannis Vranos <cppdeveloper at ontelecoms.gr> wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 08:12 +0000, Colin Law wrote:
>> On 10 February 2011 22:52, Ioannis Vranos <cppdeveloper at ontelecoms.gr> wrote:
>> >
>> > Upgrade to ext4 definitely, in all circumstances. Back up and format.
>>
>> Why?  I know there are some improvements but are they so important
>> that I should immediately reformat all my machines?  It seems to me
>> that is only necessary if there are security issues.
>
>
> Apart from the ext4's performance and anti-fragmentation improvements,
> fscking an ext4 partition takes so short time, that is actually a
> pleasure to run it! :-)

Whilst that may well be true, I don't think it is sufficient reason to
take down a working system and reformatting.

Colin