Re: tracking bug for ext4

2008-11-11 Thread shirish
Hi all, I agree with both of you. Although I would like to point out two threads on ubuntuforums which might interest you both as well. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=965879 and http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=969368 I am well aware that it might not make Jaunty but make Ja

Re: tracking bug for ext4

2008-11-06 Thread John Dong
At any rate, regardless of whether we use it or not, making a bug in Launchpad is not going to change the course of action. My point was that Shirish should have first checked with the handful of core-devs and kernel devs who have a good understanding of filesystem development in the kernel tree, b

Re: tracking bug for ext4

2008-11-06 Thread Chris Cheney
John, 2.6.28 will come out around January and Jaunty will probably ship with 2.6.29 but it very well might not be a good idea to use it by default for Jaunty which is what shirish seemed to be talking about. Just because it is not considered development status doesn't necessarily mean it is stable

Re: tracking bug for ext4

2008-11-04 Thread John Dong
Please stop filing nonsense bugs without first understanding the situation. ext4 will become the default filesystem once upstream recommends it for adoption (i.e. 2.6.28). GRUB still does not support reading ext4 so we will probably need a separate /boot on ext2/ext3, or wait for one of the SoC pro

tracking bug for ext4

2008-11-04 Thread shirish
Hi all, I made a tracking bug for having ext4 as the primary filesystem in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub/+bug/293465 Perhaps the description and stuff can be overhauled. As a simple generic desktop user having an online defragger and better journaling, data integrity is