Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (475 mails)

[Arvin Schnell <aschnell@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 09:55:07AM +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> Markus Koßmann <mkossmann_ml1@xxxxxx> writes:
>
> > In 11.0 there is basic support ( kernelmodule and utilities) for ext4 but 
> > no 
> > support for installation on ext4. Will there be support for installation on 
> > ext4 in 11.1 ?  Or is  ext4  still considered too unstable ?
>
> We're doing a massive redesign of the partitioner for 11.1 and
> I'm not sure whether we can add ext4 support.

Well, adding ext4 to YaST should not be so difficult unless it
behaves significant different from ext2/ext3.

Also ext4 is still not considered stable enough and other
features are considered more important.

> The kernel and base tools will support it, so installing on
> ext3 and running tune2fs is one option,

Seems as if parted still displays ext4 as ext3. At least blkid
gets it right now. Can't do real test since I don't have a 11.1
Alpha at hand.

ciao Arvin

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