On Miércoles 06 Mayo 2009 12:14:47 PM Patrick Goetz wrote: > In his blog, Ted Ts'o comments that the 2.6.30 patch for this has been > backported by Canonical to 9.04 (I think somewhere in the comments to > this entry) > http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2009/03/12/delayed-allocation-and-the-zero- length-file-problem/ > > Can anyone confirm that if I start formatting file servers with > 9.04-based ext4 partitions users won't be faced with losing dozens of > recently saved files if the server happens to crash?
Are you looking for a guarantee that no data loss will happen with ext4? It's still a new filesystem, and no filesystem is 100% safe to begin with... If you're just looking for "yes that patch is applied so the common case is fixed" ...then yeah, you're relatively safe. What I did on my laptop is I put / as ext4 for the fast boot and /home is still ext3 (1. didn't want to go through migration 2. it *is* a new filesystem after all...). The user's data is just as safe or unsafe as before because user's data is still on ext3. A bug *may* crop up that harms the system itself, but a reinstall is nothing compared to user-data-loss. -- Mackenzie Morgan http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com apt-get moo
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