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

[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?
>

No, writes are cached. Allegedly, KDE is depending on the cache and
not syncing. This is bad when the write delay is measured in minutes
(ext4) as opposed to seconds (ext3).

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

Don't tell me, mention that on the bug!

-- 
Dotan Cohen

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