<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:14 PM, john-thomas richards <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jtr@jrichards.org">jtr@jrichards.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 11:21:31AM -0400, Benjamin Flanders wrote:<br>
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Jeff DeFouw <<a href="mailto:jeffd@i2k.com">jeffd@i2k.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 07:33:44AM -0400, john-thomas richards wrote:<br>
> >> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 01:32:32AM -0400, Jeff DeFouw wrote:<br>
> >> [snip]<br>
> >> > ext4 is ready for general use now, but some bugs are still being found.<br>
> >> [snip]<br>
> >><br>
> >> What sort of bugs? When xchat or Firefox or Kile have bugs, the apps<br>
> >> crash. When a filesystem has bugs, I may lose data.<br>
> ><br>
> > Good question. I haven't been reading the bug details.<br>
> ><br>
> > ext4 was declared "stable" by the kernel devs in 2.6.28. That means<br>
> > it's the v1.0.3 of 2.6.31. I don't think anyone has recommended it as a<br>
> > default filesystem yet.<br>
><br>
> This isn't happening until next month, but Ubuntu will have ext4 as<br>
> default in 9.10<br>
<br>
</div>That's a pretty big endorsement. Since I am running Debian stable I<br>
won't be seeing 2.6.28+ for some time. :-)<br>
<font color="#888888">--<br>
john-thomas</font><br></blockquote><div><br>Wasn't the Debian effort being <br>criticized for being excessively<br>cautious? In the eyes of others <br>anyway.<br><br>I'd thought the releases were going<br>to come a little more often now.<br>
<br> -- Bob<br> <br></div></div>