Comments on: Upgrading my laptop to ext4 http://tribulaciones.org/2009/03/upgrading-my-laptop-to-ext4/ A blog about me and whatever insterests me Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:59:07 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: maks http://tribulaciones.org/2009/03/upgrading-my-laptop-to-ext4/comment-page-1/#comment-40 maks Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:09:49 +0000 http://tribulaciones.org/?p=110#comment-40 alternatively with old klibc you can override with bootarg rootfstype=ext4 -maks alternatively with old klibc you can override with bootarg rootfstype=ext4

-maks

]]> By: tomás zerolo http://tribulaciones.org/2009/03/upgrading-my-laptop-to-ext4/comment-page-1/#comment-38 tomás zerolo Sun, 15 Mar 2009 13:07:10 +0000 http://tribulaciones.org/?p=110#comment-38 Carlos, thanks for the nice instructions. One small nit: the boot parameter above is "break=mount", not "mount=break". Saludos -- tomás Carlos,

thanks for the nice instructions.

One small nit: the boot parameter above is “break=mount”, not “mount=break”.

Saludos
– tomás

]]> By: ulrik http://tribulaciones.org/2009/03/upgrading-my-laptop-to-ext4/comment-page-1/#comment-37 ulrik Sun, 15 Mar 2009 12:31:07 +0000 http://tribulaciones.org/?p=110#comment-37 Haven't you read the latest big discussions on ext4? Unless you use the very latest ubuntu kernels, it might bite you and leave truncated files Here is a link to Teds blog. I myself don't agree with his explanation of what the problem is, but the solution is queued as patches to futre a linux version. http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2009/03/12/delayed-allocation-and-the-zero-length-file-problem/ Haven’t you read the latest big discussions on ext4? Unless you use the very latest ubuntu kernels, it might bite you and leave truncated files

Here is a link to Teds blog. I myself don’t agree with his explanation of what the problem is, but the solution is queued as patches to futre a linux version.
http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2009/03/12/delayed-allocation-and-the-zero-length-file-problem/

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