On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:59:07 -0600 Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote: > On 12/30/08 19:36, Ken Teague wrote: > > Slim Joe wrote: > >> Besides the name, what's the difference between ext4dev and ext4? > >> > >> 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? > > > > It's to my understanding that ext4 stable was released with Linux > > kernel 2.6.28. I think it was still in development in 2.6.26. I > > would suspect that the ext4dev stuff is part of Linux kernels prior > > to 2.6.28. > > Exactly. I'd wait to use ext4 until .29, because lots of bugs will > be found in the .28 cycle. I agree. Even though I'm pretty sure Ext4 is more stable than a big number of other popular things we got in proprietary world of software ;) Regards, Frank -- http://frank.uvena.de/en/
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