Hi all - 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! Thanks, -Eric -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
