| 1 |
On 12/29/2009 7:17 PM, Albert Hopkins wrote: |
| 2 |
> On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 00:08 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
| 3 |
> |
| 4 |
>> just think a moment of the tons of bug fixes constantly going into |
| 5 |
>> ext4. That |
| 6 |
>> crap is not stable. Pre-alpha maybe. |
| 7 |
>> |
| 8 |
> People say this from time to time, yet I have been running ext4 on my |
| 9 |
> root directory of my laptop since July 2008. The only problem I've had |
| 10 |
> since then is one time it would not mount on boot. I merely had to fsck |
| 11 |
> it from a live media an then it was ok (nothing lost or currupted). But |
| 12 |
> that was a long time ago when it was still ext4dev. And I've had |
| 13 |
> numerous crashes and battery depletions on the laptop without incident. |
| 14 |
> So the pre-alpha FUD that some people are spreading is either not true |
| 15 |
> or I just happen to be the luckiest ext4 user in the world :-). |
| 16 |
> |
| 17 |
For my two cents, a while back I was on ext4 and was trying to get xorg |
| 18 |
working. My problem was that the input drivers were not working (because |
| 19 |
they had not been recompiled after an update), so once I ran startx, no |
| 20 |
keyboard or mouse input was registered. This meant that every time I |
| 21 |
tried something which I thought would fix it, I had to hard reset the |
| 22 |
system and look at the logs. The only problem was that the logs had the |
| 23 |
wrong contents because they had been "written to" but not actually |
| 24 |
flushed to the disk, and it took me about 10 hard resets to figure that |
| 25 |
out. Even though I was running ext4, I never lost a thing (except the |
| 26 |
logs :p). |
| 27 |
|
| 28 |
For the curious, I eventually got good logs by running shutdown -h 1 in |
| 29 |
one tty right before running startx in the other, and that shutdown the |
| 30 |
system correctly. |
| 31 |
|
| 32 |
Marcus |
Archives