On Wed, Jan 27, at 12:41 ICMP Request wrote: > Hello guys! I haven't had time to see much of the discussions of the > list, so sorry if it was asked recently, but either on stable and also > on dev versions of the book you are still creating an ext3 filesystem > instead of ext4. I would like to know if there is any particular reason > for not using ext4 yet, isn't it stable enough for the most recent kernels? > > I'm asking because I'm planning to use ext4 but I don't know if I should > or not, been away from Linux for some time so I don't know how stable it > is. If not even on the dev version of the book you are using yet, that > scares me a little...
LFS doesn't enforce what type of filesystem the user will use, and it uses as an example ext3, because is considering stable enough. However maybe it would be good idea to provide additional commands to create various filesystems that are marked 'stable' in Linux kernel. About the ext4, from what I've read from articles, it isn't exactly that 'stable'. Maybe it was marked too fast as stable, especially if you think that the type of filesystem, perhaps it's the most critical component of an operating system, so a lot more of testing was needed before users start the transition. You can read more in a recent published benchmark: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ext4_then_now Maybe a ticket (perhaps with low priority) to provide additional commands for other filesystems is justified. Regards, Agathoklis. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
