Comments on: Migrating to ext4

By: Leon

Leon — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:34:38 +0000

Yeah, but still open in Jaunty. :(
/me using a kernel from the mainline builds ppa

By: mdz

mdz — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 10:34:52 +0000

Two months in, I’m very satisfied with ext4. The bug I experienced is fixed in Karmic, and I haven’t had any other problems.

By: mdz

mdz — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 07:14:34 +0000

After upgrading my kernel to the latest one in -proposed, I discovered a missing step: grub-install (hd0)

The version of grub installed in my MBR did not know how to read ext4 extent maps, but the version in the 9.04 grub package does. The above command installs the new version.

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By: mdz

mdz — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 08:35:10 +0000

We’re actually very pleased with how well they are working with us. While we are discovering problems (which is to be expected), they’ve responded quickly and helped to diagnose them. Ted Ts’o in particular has been very involved and helpful as we’ve made ext4 available in Ubuntu.

Maybe we’ll need to fix some programs, and maybe we won’t, but I’m confident we’ll converge on a solution which works for everyone.

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By: David Gerard

David Gerard — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:12:21 +0000

As long as the ext4 developers fail to understand that people are going to run KDE and GNOME, however badly-written, on top of their wonderful file system, I fear I’ll be sticking with ext3.

By: mdz

mdz — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 08:10:16 +0000

My irreplaceable data lives on servers which get backed up. Although this is the machine I usually type on when I’m working, it doesn’t contain anything essential. After all, it’s a laptop, and I take it with me while traveling, so it could get lost.

By: mdz

mdz — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 08:08:03 +0000

I was aware of that one, and understand that it has been addressed by patches the kernel team pulled into the 9.04 kernel. There may of course be other data corruption bugs.

By: Damon Lynch

Damon Lynch — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 02:57:18 +0000

I hope you’re being super good at backing up your data. I tried running / as ext4 in the jaunty alpha stage but it was trashed by some or other bug – I didn’t have the skill to diagnose what happened, and no one was on IRC at the time who could help. I’m very glad I didn’t convert /home. I’m back to ext3 for now.