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