Apparently, though unproven, at 23:18 on Friday 31 December 2010, Mark Knecht did opine thusly:
> 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... Maybe you do have observer bias. Or maybe you bought new shiny *faster* disks :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
