Hi,
I was wondering what is the current status fro ext4 support in Centos. I've noticed that is marked as dev when I try to use it from the installer.
Does anybody have a scary story to prevent using it?
On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 02:45:28PM -0400, mbneto wrote:
Hi,
I was wondering what is the current status fro ext4 support in Centos. I've noticed that is marked as dev when I try to use it from the installer.
Does anybody have a scary story to prevent using it?
RHEL 5.4 was just released, and it contains updates for ext4. It's called 'ext4' now, instead of 'ext4dev' earlier.
But it's still a tech preview.
See: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1243.html (kernel changes/bugfixes) http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.4/html/Release_N... http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.4/html/Technical...
http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.4/html/Release_N...
"The ext4 file system (included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a Technology Preview) has also been updated (BZ#485315)."
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=485315
"The ext4 filesystem Technology Preview has been refreshed with updated userspace tools"
"In previous versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux utilizing the ext4 Technology Preview, ext4 filesystems were labeled as ext4dev. With this update, ext4 filesystems are now tagged as ext4."
Hopefully that helps.
-- Pasi
2009/9/2 mbneto mbneto@gmail.com:
Hi,
I was wondering what is the current status fro ext4 support in Centos. I've noticed that is marked as dev when I try to use it from the installer.
Does anybody have a scary story to prevent using it?
For now, I'm running two C5.3 x86_64 with it without any problem (unless you consider that being faster that ext3 is one;).
box1 /dev/sdb1 14T 7,3T 6,2T 54% /data /dev/sdb1 on /data type ext4dev (rw)
box2 /dev/sdb1 14T 11T 2,7T 81% /data /dev/sdb1 on /data type ext4dev (rw)
Laurent.
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