On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Bogdan Cristea
I have just begun to download openSUSE 11.2 and I'm wondering if it's worth to change also the file system type of both root and my home partition from ext3 to ext4. Could you share your opinions ?
I would definitely avoid it on root for now. The issue is that initial mounting stages for root are different than for other filesystems. From what I have seen on the ext4 list, the issues they have had have been much worse for users that have ext4 on root. I don't think even the main devels are running ext4 on their root partitions. ext4 for /home I would consider, but ONLY if I never plan to run a RC kernel. (ie. a factory kernel). ext4 is still under rapid development and it tends to break at the start of each kernel dev cycle. In this last one it had known problems for a month or two before the correct reversion was found to allow it to run properly. Thus anyone runnning a 2.6.32-rcX kernel was putting any ext4 hosted data at risk. (It turned out to be the journal was often truncated at boot time, so a lot of filesystem updates got lost if you had a non-graceful shutdown. For some users it was a 1 in 10 times thing. Ted Tso the main developer was not be able to reproduce it, but he said he did not have ext4 on root.) Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org