Feature changed by: Grozdan Nikolov (microchip8) Feature #305691, revision 25 Title: Support ext4 as installation option openSUSE-11.2: Evaluation Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: Stephan Binner (beineri) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Next openSUSE release should at least support to use (versus "default to") ext4 as file system. Discussion: #1: Piotrek Juzwiak (benderbendingrodriguez) (2009-01-18 03:29:23) I think there will be an option to that naturally as openSUSE 11.1 will use the newer kernel with stabilized ext4 tree. All the tools for it are already there and GRUB also supports it. It's not necessary to vote for this feature as it will naturally be there. #2: Piotrek Juzwiak (benderbendingrodriguez) (2009-01-18 03:29:43) Sorry meant 11.2 #3: Claus Rebler (zunami) (2009-01-18 17:55:32) yeah that is a good idea but @ version 11.2 #4: Jan Engelhardt (jengelh) (2009-01-19 09:50:29) XFS has had many features of ext4 for years already (and is currently also supported by openSUSE and grub). #5: Jan Engelhardt (jengelh) (2009-01-19 09:52:16) (reply to #4) But yeah, support would be great. At the same time, btrfs could be added as an experimental selection. #6: Piotrek Juzwiak (benderbendingrodriguez) (2009-01-23 22:22:23) The problem with XFS is that it's no longer maintained. Second is that it gets fragmented heavily. + #7: Grozdan Nikolov (microchip8) (2009-01-28 14:59:00) (reply to #6) + what do you mean by no longer maintained? Only in openSUSE or in + general? If in general, I highly doubt XFS is no longer maintained as + it's still actively under development (check out xfs mailing list). + And how does XFS gets fragmented heavily? Out of all file systems for + Linux so far, it offers the least amount of fragmentation. I do not use + XFS as main file system on my rigs because I've had a lot of problems + with it, mostly messing up things after power outage or hard reboots -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305691