[GRLUG] WMNTUG Windows 7 Meeting

[Bob Kline]

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:14 PM, john-thomas richards <jtr at jrichards.org>wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 11:21:31AM -0400, Benjamin Flanders wrote:
> > 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
>
> That's a pretty big endorsement.  Since I am running Debian stable I
> won't be seeing 2.6.28+ for some time.  :-)
> --
> john-thomas
>

Wasn't the Debian effort being
criticized for being excessively
cautious?  In the eyes of others
anyway.

I'd thought the releases were going
to come a little more often now.

   -- Bob
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