[opensuse] Using ext4 filesystem with openSUSE 11.2
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 ? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Bogdan Cristea wrote:
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 ?
What do you expect to gain? /Per -- Per Jessen, Zürich (7.6°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Bogdan Cristea wrote:
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 think i read that grub doesn't support ext4, so it should be ext3.. but, i only _think_ i read (or dreamed) that...so check the docs.. DenverD -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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 think i read that grub doesn't support ext4, so it should be ext3..
but, i only _think_ i read (or dreamed) that...so check the docs..
I've got one of my machines running 100% ext4 with openSUSE 11.2 and Grub works fine with it. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 12 November 2009 07:46:47 am DenverD wrote:
Bogdan Cristea wrote:
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 think i read that grub doesn't support ext4, so it should be ext3..
but, i only _think_ i read (or dreamed) that...so check the docs..
DenverD
I've been running my whole system as ext4 since milestone 2. No problems so far. I'm now on the final release. Grub has not had problem with ext4. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 12 November 2009 16:46:47 DenverD wrote:
Bogdan Cristea wrote:
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 think i read that grub doesn't support ext4, so it should be ext3..
but, i only _think_ i read (or dreamed) that...so check the docs..
Plain grub does not - but the openSUSE 11.1 and 11.2 grub versions do support ext4, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj@{novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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
* Cristian Rodríguez
On 12/11/09 13:11, Greg Freemyer wrote:
I would definitely avoid it on root for now.
Running on root partition here, no problems whatsoever.
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