Hi, On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:49:56 +0900 "Slim Joe" <slimjoe2k8@gmail.com> wrote: > Besides the name, what's the difference between ext4dev and ext4? The status of development I'd guess. > I'm curious because I'm planning to format a 1TB disk as ext4. It > appears that the e2fs tools already have support for ext4 (with and > without -"dev"). The problem is the latest Debian Linux image > (2.6.26.x) has support only for ext4dev. > > So the only way I can use an ext4 filesystem right now is to format > the hard disk as ext4dev and mount it as ext4dev. Will a subsequent > kernel upgrade with support for plain ext4 allow me to mount the > ext4dev-formatted disk as ext4? I think the answer can be very short: Even in 2.6.28 ext4 is not recommended for production use. So as long as you are not 100% sure, what you are doing here, just keep your system on ext3 or anything else you are currently using. Ext4 inside 2.6.26 was still under developing. Maybe checking wikipedia at [1] can make things a bit more clear here. > P.S. My last post. ? Cheers, Frank [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext4 -- http://frank.uvena.de/en/
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