Heads up on ext4 changes

[Eric Sandeen]

Christopher Brown wrote:
> 2008/10/9 Eric Sandeen <sandeen at redhat.com>:
>> Mike Chambers wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 08:04 -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>>>
>>>> (*)Yes, this does indicate that the ext4 developers feel it's time to
>>>> move on past the "dev" stage; as the patch says "The ext4 filesystem is
>>>> getting stable enough that it's time to drop the "dev" prefix." - as
>>>> with any filesystem, though, I still encourage you to back up important
>>>> data :)
>>> Does this mean ext4 will be available as generic during
>>> installs/upgrades, same as ext3?  Or does it have to be given as an
>>> option during install to get it to show up?
>> it still takes the ext4 option on boot.
> 
> Oh come on - that makes it barely differential between
> iamanext4developer. Put your nuts on the line and offer it up as an
> additional option on install - I dare you. I thought Fedora was
> bleeding edge! I miss that heart-racing feeling when I _just dont
> know_ if my data is coming back up on reboot... :)

too late for the fedora feature process, otherwise I'd be tempted....

-Eric