To those moving to Jaunty: Do not use the new ext4

[Jonas Norlander]

2009/3/12 Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com>:
> I'm not blaming the ext4 developers nor am I blaming KDE, but there
> exists a dangerous condition for using KDE under ext4:
> http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/11/2031231
>
> The /. article links to Launchpad bugs. I do not link to them directly
> because the /. comments are actually very important for this issue,
> and will be more informative than the flames and
> responsibility-denying that I am sure will ensue here.
>
> In short, don't use ext4 on Kubuntu Jaunty. In fact, I have argued
> before that end users should avoid ext4 or any new technology for some
> time after debut.
>
> --
> Dotan Cohen

I haven't read all comments and I'm no expert on file systems but as
far as i know ext4 is a journaling file system and by that it should
guarantee that only complete writes of a file should be registered and
if thats not the case the old file should be intact and not truncated.
Apparently thats not the case with ext4 so what have I missed?

This is a showstopper for ext4 in Jaunty as I see it and they should
remove the option for using ext4 at installation.

/ Jonas