[GRLUG] WMNTUG Windows 7 Meeting

Jeff DeFouw jeffd at i2k.com
Thu Sep 17 10:53:40 EDT 2009


On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 07:33:44AM -0400, john-thomas richards wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 01:32:32AM -0400, Jeff DeFouw wrote:
> [snip]
> > ext4 is ready for general use now, but some bugs are still being found.  
> [snip]
> 
> What sort of bugs?  When xchat or Firefox or Kile have bugs, the apps
> crash.  When a filesystem has bugs, I may lose data.

Good question.  I haven't been reading the bug details.

ext4 was declared "stable" by the kernel devs in 2.6.28.  That means 
it's the v1.0.3 of 2.6.31.  I don't think anyone has recommended it as a 
default filesystem yet.

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Jeff DeFouw <jeffd at i2k.com>


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