[Poll] Linux EXT4, when will you migrate/convert?


  

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  1. 1. When will you migrate your Linux box to the ext4 filesystem?

    • I already have
      3
    • When my install updates to the 2.6.28 kernel through its existing updater
      23
    • I plan on doing it manually later, incase there are issues
      6
    • I'll stick to ext3 for the foreseeable future - no plan to update
      9
    • I prefer Reiser/ZFS/Other, so won't use an extX filesystem
      3


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It's in an article on E-Linux. And there is another writeup on KernelNewbies.

The ext4 filesystem has been found to be stable, and has been brought into the 2.6.28 kernel. I plan on converting my ext3 to it as soon as I get my new kernel through the update manager when it is added to the repos. The improvements sound nice. Not a "gotta have" thing, but nice enough to be worth it to me.

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As soon as the update is available. Just like you said, not a "must have" but definitely a nice update. Been reading about it off and on for quite some time now. After updating to this, then is the waiting game for Btrfs. :p

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Hopefully Ubuntu will add em to their update repositories.

btw I didn't know of ext4 till Mark told us. If you don't mind could you share the improvements that this updated filesystem comes with?

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afusion, follow the links for ext4 details.

i will convert when 9.04 goes live or so

ext4 is sweet but im REALLY interested in the GEM memory manager. linux surely has grow a lot the last 3 years.

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Hopefully Ubuntu will add em to their update repositories.

btw I didn't know of ext4 till Mark told us. If you don't mind could you share the improvements that this updated filesystem comes with?

Also, there are currently some limitations, in that GRUB doesn't have support for ext4 yet, so you can't have your /boot in ext4. If you have a separate /boot partition (like Red Hat and Fedora default to), then you can leave that small partition as ext3 for now. But *buntu defaults to leaving /boot as part of the root partition, so that removes the ability to just easily convert a large section of your drive to ext4.

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I have some home made kernel patch to use all my hardware. Most of them are broken with recent kernel so I still use 2.6.23. It is stable so I don't plan to port them to newer kernel anytime soon. Last time I tried (2.6.27-rc3) the framework has changed and many of my patch had to be totally rewritten... Ext3 + my SATA2 driver + linux does not work well (very, very bad IO lagg on load) but I can live with it. It is why I will continue to use EXT3 for at least a year.

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I'm running .28 on my laptop right now. Later this week when I get some downtime I'll be converting / and /home to ext4 and leaving /boot as ext2 as it always has been.

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I use my / as ext3, /boot as ext2 and /home and /files are XFS... Dunno why, XFS seems faster/better to me for some reason, and supports much larger file sizes/etc. Nice for future-proofing etc. Tell me if you think XFS sucks, but i haven't had any problems yet... :p

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I'll use EXT3 for the time being, until installers start to include EXT4 by default. Personally, I'd use EXT2 if EXT3 wasn't available, so it doesn't make much of a difference to me.

ZFS is an exciting prospect but until there is more stable support for it under Linux I won't be using it.

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I use my / as ext3, /boot as ext2 and /home and /files are XFS... Dunno why, XFS seems faster/better to me for some reason, and supports much larger file sizes/etc. Nice for future-proofing etc. Tell me if you think XFS sucks, but i haven't had any problems yet... :p

EXT4 adds support for larger file sizes and should run faster :p

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