Is 5.3 and ext4 going to be safe? I have seen a couple reports of data loss using ext4? Has this already been fixed?
What does the list recommend? ext3/ ext4?
Thought maybe today we would start seeing 5.3 showing up... Looking forward to it.
Jerry
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 8:04 AM, Jerry Geis geisj@pagestation.com wrote:
Is 5.3 and ext4 going to be safe?
Define 'safe'
I have seen a couple reports of data loss using ext4?
No. You've read reports about applications that had relied on a feature/bug of ext3 eating data when using ext4.
Has this already been fixed?
No.
What does the list recommend? ext3/ ext4?
For what application type? I've been running ext4 in development with apache and it's working okay, but it's also development. I haven't tested it under any real sort of load. Just to see that it worked.
Thought maybe today we would start seeing 5.3 showing up... Looking forward to it.
On Thursday 19 March 2009, Jerry Geis wrote:
Is 5.3 and ext4 going to be safe? I have seen a couple reports of data loss using ext4? Has this already been fixed?
Like Jim said, not ext4's fault.
What does the list recommend? ext3/ ext4?
Ext4 (actually ext4dev) in 5.3 will be a preview and not meant for general use. So most people should probably stay with ext3.
/Peter
Thought maybe today we would start seeing 5.3 showing up... Looking forward to it.
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