Comments on: Bitten by the ext4 “bug” http://blog.christophersmart.com/2009/08/11/bitten-by-the-ext4-bug/ Fortiter Et Recte Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:07:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Chris http://blog.christophersmart.com/2009/08/11/bitten-by-the-ext4-bug/comment-page-1/#comment-4984 Chris Mon, 14 Sep 2009 03:43:44 +0000 http://blog.christophersmart.com/?p=1095#comment-4984 In all fairness to the developers, they did fork ext3 in order to create ext4, rather than extending it further for that very reason. The change to the default journalling mode in the kernel is in response to issues discovered once ext4 went mainstream. It's a good change, but in the end it's the distros which have to decide what to set :-) -c In all fairness to the developers, they did fork ext3 in order to create ext4, rather than extending it further for that very reason. The change to the default journalling mode in the kernel is in response to issues discovered once ext4 went mainstream. It’s a good change, but in the end it’s the distros which have to decide what to set :-)

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]]> By: stoiccola http://blog.christophersmart.com/2009/08/11/bitten-by-the-ext4-bug/comment-page-1/#comment-4983 stoiccola Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:05:37 +0000 http://blog.christophersmart.com/?p=1095#comment-4983 I lost an external to ext3. Couldn't get any of the superblocks to recover. Kept telling me it was unable to write a superblock. Problem is they kept making changes to ext3. They should lock it down and not touch it much like Reiserfs3. http://forum.soft32.com/linux/PULL-ext3-improvements-31-rc8-ftopict492618.html improvements? Think they should just call it ext3.1 I lost an external to ext3. Couldn’t get any of the superblocks to recover. Kept telling me it was unable to write a superblock.

Problem is they kept making changes to ext3. They should lock it down and not touch it much like Reiserfs3.

http://forum.soft32.com/linux/PULL-ext3-improvements-31-rc8-ftopict492618.html

improvements?

Think they should just call it ext3.1

]]> By: Chris http://blog.christophersmart.com/2009/08/11/bitten-by-the-ext4-bug/comment-page-1/#comment-4909 Chris Tue, 18 Aug 2009 01:58:09 +0000 http://blog.christophersmart.com/?p=1095#comment-4909 Indeed.. I'm hanging out for an updated kernel at some stage, but I think that Fedora, like Ubuntu and others, doesn't upgrade major kernel releases. Would be nice to see some of those fixes backported though, if it were possible. Still, for now it's ext3 for me :-) Indeed.. I’m hanging out for an updated kernel at some stage, but I think that Fedora, like Ubuntu and others, doesn’t upgrade major kernel releases. Would be nice to see some of those fixes backported though, if it were possible. Still, for now it’s ext3 for me :-)

]]> By: Chris Samuel http://blog.christophersmart.com/2009/08/11/bitten-by-the-ext4-bug/comment-page-1/#comment-4908 Chris Samuel Tue, 18 Aug 2009 01:48:35 +0000 http://blog.christophersmart.com/?p=1095#comment-4908 I think there was a fair bit of work done in 2.6.30 to address those sorts of issues. I think there was a fair bit of work done in 2.6.30 to address those sorts of issues.

]]> By: Chris http://blog.christophersmart.com/2009/08/11/bitten-by-the-ext4-bug/comment-page-1/#comment-4905 Chris Sat, 15 Aug 2009 06:59:46 +0000 http://blog.christophersmart.com/?p=1095#comment-4905 Can't remember now.. the latest at the time, whatever that was.. 2.6.29.something. Can’t remember now.. the latest at the time, whatever that was.. 2.6.29.something.

]]> By: Chris Samuel http://blog.christophersmart.com/2009/08/11/bitten-by-the-ext4-bug/comment-page-1/#comment-4904 Chris Samuel Sat, 15 Aug 2009 06:00:20 +0000 http://blog.christophersmart.com/?p=1095#comment-4904 Wow - that's pretty bad! Not seen that yet, which kernel are you using ? Wow – that’s pretty bad! Not seen that yet, which kernel are you using ?

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