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On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Apparently, though unproven, at 18:41 on Friday 31 December 2010, Stroller did |
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> opine thusly: |
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>> On 31/12/2010, at 4:16pm, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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>> > I haven't seen much discussion of ext4. Are people using it? |
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>> Yeah, it seems pretty good. Anecdotally it seems stable enough, I don't see |
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>> why it should be less so than ext3, now. Deletes are *much* faster than |
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>> with ext3. |
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> I get the same with ext4 on three machines: |
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> Latest Ubuntu on the Acer notebook |
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> This here gentoo notebook |
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> Android Donut on the phone |
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> Seems reliably enough - no problems yet after 1 full year. Nothing unusual |
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> about my usage except the notebook compiles stuff almost constantly, is always |
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> running three VMs at least and is hardly never switched off |
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> -- |
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> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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Thanks Alan. That's good info. |
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As this is intended to be more or less a duplicate of the existing |
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system on this box, just placed on a new RAID6, I've opted not to do |
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the disk copy as per the thread this week. No LiveCD, I just followed |
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the Gentoo install from within a terminal on this box. It's flying |
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along with nearly everything done expect the new kernel. The holdup |
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there will be figuring out what an initramfs really is and what really |
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needs to be included in it. I'm following this: |
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http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Initramfs |
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which is reasonable, We'll see how it goes. |
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I will say that the install on this 5-disk RAID6 running ext4 seems |
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speedy compared to the 3-disk RAID1 running ext3 that I'm currently |
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using. Probably I'm just imagining that... |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |