Peter Robinson wrote: >>> 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. yes, I'd like to automatically make optimisations like this if flash can be detected by anaconda. -Eric -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
