>> I've installed a couple of F-10 systems with ext-4 without major >> issues but in F-10 you couldn't use ext4 for the /boot partition which >> I presume you'll be able to do for F-11. > > Eventually, I hope so. Not that /boot is all that critical... but there > is an ext4 patch for grub which needs some testing yet. (and needs some > pushing-to-rawhide yet). > >> Also there's the option now of using ext4 without a journal in recent >> time (presumably to be able to finally do away with ext2) which for >> some systems is very useful so to be able to use that option when >> installing would be very useful too. > > doubtful that ext2 will ever go away, it's still kind of the canonical > disk-based filesystem in the kernel (very useful as an example if > nothing else), but usecases for ext2 may well migrate to ext4+nojournal. > > When you say useful to use it when installing, you mean so that the > resulting fs is set up that way? It could always be switched over > post-install; having the install option would be *nice* but not > *critical* - in general the installer doesn't expose very many > mkfs/mount options for any filesystem at this point .... Useful to be able to specify either through a boot parameter like ext4 gets specified for F-10 at the moment or through a kickstart options for building images. I think it gets used quite a bit for flash based systems so as reduce the wear on the flash. Peter -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
