Re: Ext4dev vs. Ext4
- From: Frank Lanitz <frank@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 02:19:59 +0100
Hi,
On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:49:56 +0900
"Slim Joe" <slimjoe2k8@xxxxxxxxx> 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 (with and
without -"dev"). The problem is the latest Debian Linux image
(2.6.26.x) has support only for ext4dev.
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:
Even in 2.6.28 ext4 is not recommended for production use. So as long
as you are not 100% sure, what you are doing here, just keep your
system on ext3 or anything else you are currently using. Ext4 inside
2.6.26 was still under developing.
Maybe checking wikipedia at [1] can make things a bit more clear here.
P.S. My last post.
?
Cheers,
Frank
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext4
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