Re: Ext4 FAQ

[Rahul Sundaram <sundaram fedoraproject org>]

On 05/05/2009 04:08 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 02:52 +0530, Gireesh wrote:
>>> I had mistakenly assumed that this would be settable interactively.
>>> In fact I don't quite see why it isn't.
>> I rather prefer the current setup to manually specify "ext4migrate"
>> a) Since ext4 isn't backward compatible to ext3.
>> b) users when interactively prompted with a message to choose between
>> ext4 and ext3, would most of the time choose ext4 because of the
>> higher number without knowing the facts.
> 
> There's something to be said for that, however I think hiding it in the
> Anaconda options will virtually guarantee that most people, keen to try
> out their shiny new F11, simply won't see it.

I think it is better that way. A new filesystem is a big deal. People
upgrading should ideally read the documentation associated with an
upgrade to understand the details. If they don't, they are better off
with the conservative choice.

Rahul