On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 11:26:18AM +0100, Imran Chaudhry wrote: > > Thanks for your reply Ben. > > As an aside, from what kernel version would you recommend use of ext4 in? > > Maybe I should use (tried and rusted) ext3 for my backup devices. I > mentioned this problem in my local LUG and a couple of people reported > similar problems with ext4. There were a lot of important bug fixes were integrated in the oh, 2.6.35 or 2.6.36. Unfortunately, porting the necessary ext4 patches to 2.6.32 was very difficult, since some of the patches in question had prerequisites that involved fairly massive changes to the quota subsystem. An enterprise distro such as Red Hat could make the backports work, but it wasn't easy, and Red Hat by policy doesn't release its broken out patches, so it's hard for Oracle (and Debian) to profit by the yeoman work done by Eric Sandeen. (Note, by the way, not his fault; blame Red Hat management.) As a result, I would strongly recommend that people use a more modern 3.x kernel. Since Debian Wheezy will be using a 3.2-based kernel, this problem will be addressed for the Debian stable users (hopefully!) soon. Regards, - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
