On 27 January 2011 15:06, Sorin Srbu sorin.srbu@orgfarm.uu.se wrote:
Hi all,
For those of you that have been using the ext4 technology preview on CentOS 5.5, how has it panned out? Does it perform as expected? How do you feel the stability, creation of the FS and the administration of it is? Ideas and comments welcome.
Well for what it's worth it worked out well enough for Redhat that it is a fully supported filesystem in 5.6 and the default in 6.0... same admin tools as ext3 so not much to learn as it were...
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 5:37 PM, James Hogarth james.hogarth@gmail.com wrote:
On 27 January 2011 15:06, Sorin Srbu sorin.srbu@orgfarm.uu.se wrote:
Hi all,
For those of you that have been using the ext4 technology preview on CentOS 5.5, how has it panned out? Does it perform as expected? How do you feel the stability, creation of the FS and the administration of it is? Ideas and comments welcome.
Well for what it's worth it worked out well enough for Redhat that it is a fully supported filesystem in 5.6 and the default in 6.0... same admin tools as ext3 so not much to learn as it were... _______________________________________________
Is there an "upgrade" path, or do we need to reinstall completely ?
On 01/27/2011 07:37 AM, James Hogarth wrote:
On 27 January 2011 15:06, Sorin Srbusorin.srbu@orgfarm.uu.se wrote:
Hi all,
For those of you that have been using the ext4 technology preview on CentOS 5.5, how has it panned out? Does it perform as expected? How do you feel the stability, creation of the FS and the administration of it is? Ideas and comments welcome.
Well for what it's worth it worked out well enough for Redhat that it is a fully supported filesystem in 5.6 and the default in 6.0... same admin tools as ext3 so not much to learn as it were...
However, be very, ah, *cautious* about trying any ext4 options beyond the RH defaults. I tried creating some with extents and other non-default options yesterday and it immediately triggered kernel panics when I tried to mount the resulting file systems. On the other side, I've been running default ext4 options on CentOS5 on some machines for years now with no hiccups at all.
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