On Monday, January 19 2009, Chris Lumens said: > > Two patches so that we can switch to using ext4 as the default fs, at least > > for now. The first is a fix for live installs so that ext4 is acceptable > > for them and also cleaning up an error message I added after string freeze > > last time. > > > > The second is the actual guts of switching -- doing it there rather than > > deeper so that we don't switch /boot. > > > > Tested with a live install and was going fine before my kvm guest locked > > up, but that's an unrelated problem :) > > There are a couple other places in anaconda where we have lists of > ext3/ext2. I wonder if it's worth adding ext4 to those places as well. > For instance, look at validateFsTypes in partedUtils.py: [snip] > Or DiskSet.exceptionDisks: [snip] > Does ext4 just silently end up looking like ext3 in these places? Yep. > Otherwise, this set looks fine to me. However I am a bit concerned > about any future plans we may have in moving to btrfs by default. That > could be a ways off, but do we want to move for a release or two only to > move to a new filesystem again so soon? The kernel people (*cough*sandeen*cough*) do and he convinced FESCo to make it a Fedora 11 feature even with that possibility looming in the future. The thought is that it's at least 2-3 releases off, so we should go for the best we have now Jeremy _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
