[ale] Comparing EXT4 and JFS

[Paul Cartwright]

On Wed February 4 2009, Brian Pitts wrote:
> Looks like it's been enabled in SystemRescueCD since November 2007 and
> that the stable code will be in the next release.
>
> http://www.sysresccd.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1735
> http://sysresccd.org/Beta-x86
>
that may be, but Debian won't have it in Lenny, it is still in unstable..
but Fedora9:
http://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ext4_Howto
Fedora 9 currently has a kernel based on 2.6.25 that has basic ext4 support. 
(It is missing some of the latest fixes and performance optimizations, such 
as delayed allocation.) A 2.6.26 kernel update should be available reasonably 
soon, with more up-to-date ext4 code, though still missing delayed 
allocation, which should arrive in 2.6.27.

Fedora 9 has all of the basic infrastructure needed to be able to run ext4, 
including updated udev, blkid, and other bits needed for ext4 to be a 
transparently recognized filesystem.

e2fsprogs-1.41.0 is currently in the Fedora 9 updates-testing repository, and 
users wishing to utilize ext4 should use this version of e2fsprogs. 

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Paul Cartwright
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