Slashdot Mirror
Is ext4 Stable For Production Systems?
dr_dracula writes "Earlier this year, the ext4 filesystem was accepted into the Linux kernel. Shortly thereafter, it was discovered that some applications, such as KDE, were at risk of losing files when used on top of ext4. This was diagnosed as a rift between the design of the ext4 filesystem and the design of applications running on top of ext4. The crux of the problem was that applications were relying on ext3-specific behavior for flushing data to disk, which ext4 was not following. Recent kernel releases include patches to address these issues. My questions to the early adopters of ext4 are about whether the patches have performed as expected. What is your overall feeling about ext4? Do you think is solid enough for most users to trust it with their data? Did you find any significant performance improvements compared to ext3? Is there any incentive to move to ext4, other than sheer curiosity?"
I've been running ext4 on my system and everything's fi
I moved to ext4 as soon as it became available. I haven't had any problems thusfar (no data loss, etc), and the increased speed is noticable. So - in the opinion of a very casual Linux user - I would say that yes, it's "okay." I'm not sure I'd trust it with anything super serious, though. I could be the only one without any problems, after all. As always, you should tip-toe around anything bleeding-edge.
Yeah, man, it's ok go ahead and flip your entire corporation's servers to ext4 over this weekend. A Slashdot user named buttfscking just said it is "safe enough."
My work here is dung.
Buttfscking is my real name you insensitive clod!
Sincerely,
Ray J. Buttfscking
Huh? Buddy, this is Slashdot. There are lots of single losers here.
We avoid anything that has less than 24 months of wide deployment unless there is some absolute pressing need to
Good Idea. Let's all follow this sage advice.
Sig Battery depleted. Reverting to safe mode.