[GRLUG] WMNTUG Windows 7 Meeting

Benjamin Flanders flanderb at gmail.com
Thu Sep 17 11:21:31 EDT 2009


On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Jeff DeFouw <jeffd at i2k.com> wrote:
> 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.

This isn't happening until next month, but Ubuntu will have ext4 as
default in 9.10


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