Re: Ext4dev vs. Ext4

2008-12-31 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 08:12:11PM EST, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 12/31/08 19:04, Chris Jones wrote: > >On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 01:16:04PM EST, Frank Lanitz wrote: > >>On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:59:07 -0600 > >>Ron Johnson wrote: > [snip] > >>>Exactly. I'd wait to use ext4 until .29, because lots of bu

Re: Ext4dev vs. Ext4

2008-12-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/31/08 19:04, Chris Jones wrote: On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 01:16:04PM EST, Frank Lanitz wrote: On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:59:07 -0600 Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] Exactly. I'd wait to use ext4 until .29, because lots of bugs will be found in the .28 cycle. And who will find the bugs if everyon

Re: Ext4dev vs. Ext4

2008-12-31 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 01:16:04PM EST, Frank Lanitz wrote: > On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:59:07 -0600 > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On 12/30/08 19:36, Ken Teague wrote: > > > Slim Joe wrote: > > >> Besides the name, what's the difference between ext4dev and ext4? > > >> > > >> I'm curious because I'm pla

Re: Ext4dev vs. Ext4

2008-12-31 Thread Frank Lanitz
On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:59:07 -0600 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 12/30/08 19:36, Ken Teague wrote: > > Slim Joe wrote: > >> Besides the name, what's the difference between ext4dev and ext4? > >> > >> I'm curious because I'm planning to format a 1TB disk as ext4. It > >> appears that the e2fs tools alre

Re: Ext4dev vs. Ext4

2008-12-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/30/08 19:36, Ken Teague wrote: Slim Joe wrote: Besides the name, what's the difference between ext4dev and ext4? I'm curious because I'm planning to format a 1TB disk as ext4. It appears that the e2fs tools already have support for ext4 (with and without -"dev"). The problem is the latest

Re: Ext4dev vs. Ext4

2008-12-30 Thread Mark Allums
Frank Lanitz wrote: So the only way I can use an ext4 filesystem right now is to format the hard disk as ext4dev and mount it as ext4dev. Will a subsequent kernel upgrade with support for plain ext4 allow me to mount the ext4dev-formatted disk as ext4? I think the answer can be very short: Eve

Re: Ext4dev vs. Ext4

2008-12-30 Thread Ken Teague
Slim Joe wrote: > Besides the name, what's the difference between ext4dev and ext4? > > I'm curious because I'm planning to format a 1TB disk as ext4. It > appears that the e2fs tools already have support for ext4 (with and > without -"dev"). The problem is the latest Debian Linux image > (2.6.26.

Re: Ext4dev vs. Ext4

2008-12-30 Thread Frank Lanitz
Hi, On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:49:56 +0900 "Slim Joe" wrote: > Besides the name, what's the difference between ext4dev and ext4? The status of development I'd guess. > I'm curious because I'm planning to format a 1TB disk as ext4. It > appears that the e2fs tools already have support for ext4 (

Ext4dev vs. Ext4

2008-12-30 Thread Slim Joe
Besides the name, what's the difference between ext4dev and ext4? I'm curious because I'm planning to format a 1TB disk as ext4. It appears that the e2fs tools already have support for ext4 (with and without -"dev"). The problem is the latest Debian Linux image (2.6.26.x) has support only for ext4