Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Saturday, 2008-11-29 at 03:04 -0000, Sid Boyce wrote:
No doubt we shall soon be seeing EXT4 reaching the distros.
Probably. I'll let you guys do the testing and tell me when its safe ;-)
No problem, if no one tests this stuff, others would either hit big problems later or would stay with "safe" forever or until forced to move.
I'd test if I had a machine dedicate to testing. As it is, my test machine is also my production machine, so I have to be careful.
-- Cheers, Carlos E. R.
I can understand your situation and would take that view if I had only one box that was critical. What I've always done, as box number 1's hardware became "obsolete", I'd upgrade it and use the parts to start box number 2, etc. This means I have backups, test beds and generally a means of getting out of trouble. My work laptop (the company's) always had SuSE installed, but with the nature of my work I needed to have most of the bleeding edged stuff installed on it. I would back the laptop up to 2 boxes at home just in case. It also allowed me to upgrade the hard drive or survive hard drive failures - I had a few. The laptop never once let me down. One morning I was trying to burn a Solaris patch CD that I needed for a customer's systems and an apache problem caused the web-based CD burning app - long before k3b and friends - to not work on my box at home. I was able to NFS mount the main box on to the laptop and burn the CD across the network as the laptop didn't have a burner -- not without a certain amount of panic as downtime was scheduled and the customer was 100% expecting his systems patched that morning. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org