call for brave ext4 testers in F9, with caveats

Josh Boyer jwboyer at gmail.com
Wed Feb 6 22:49:07 UTC 2008


On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:31:30 -0600
Eric Sandeen <sandeen at redhat.com> wrote:

> Eric Sandeen wrote:
> 
> > You can explicitly mount it as -t ext4dev, and the next file created
> > will make a non-backwards-compatible change when it writes in extent
> > format.  From then on, it's an "ext4dev" filesystem with mostly
> > non-extent ext3 files on it.  :)
> 
> Oh, and getting some airtime on that configuration *would* be good, too.

What's the likelyhood of it being yanked in F9 final?  I'd hate to
switch over and then have F9 final say "you're stupid wtf is this
filesystem?"

josh




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