Re: Conversion to Ext4 in LVM

[Didar Hossain <didar.hossain@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 5:10 AM, Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> wrote:

On 11/11/2010 12:44 PM, David Baron wrote:

The system-config-lvm UI offers the option to change filesystem type, i.e.
currently ext3, change to ext4.

Can one/should one do this?

Someone tell us dummies what the difference and advantage is of
ext4 over ext3, please.

--doug

http://kernelnewbies.org/Ext4

The above lists the features - can be advantages depending on your POV.

Personally, I would not recommend converting, but, rather creating a separate partition
for ext4 to test it out.

Regards,
Didar