On 01/27/2011 07:37 AM, James Hogarth wrote: > On 27 January 2011 15:06, Sorin Srbu<sorin.srbu at 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. -- Benjamin Franz