ext4 testing in the F10 release cycle

[Peter Robinson]

> Just my semiannual plea for some ext4 testing in the Fedora beta cycle.
>
> ext4 was a feature goal for F9, and it was close; it was relegated to a
> secret-anaconda-handshake "iamanext4developer" to enable it for install
> - largely due to lack of ext4 support in e2fsprogs.
>
> With the e2fsprogs-1.41.0 release in F10, we now have an ext4-capable
> e2fsprogs, with working fsck, debugfs, etc as well as mkfs.ext4 and
> mkfs.ext4dev to enable the new disk format features by default.
>
> For F10, the barrier to entry has been lowered by 14 characters - now
> all you have to type on the boot prompt is "ext4" :)  and when you go to
> the custom partitioning screen, you'll get the option to create ext4
> filesystems at install time.
>
> I'd appreciate any and all testing, benchmarking & feedback that people
> would be willing to do.  Just getting more exposure in real-life
> scenarios would be great.
>
> As with any filesystem, I wouldn't put your only copy of your most
> precious data on it - use good sense about backups etc - but ext4 has
> made good progress since F9 on both stability and performance, so have
> at it!

Do you have recommended FS creation parameters for SSDs?

Peter