Stability of ext4

[Ioannis Vranos]

Hi all,


The first Ubuntu support for ext4 was with Ubuntu 9.04. However it was
problematic, ext4 was easily losing data.

In 9.10 ext4 looks stable. However AFAIK there were issues when
migrating to Ubuntu 9.10 from Ubuntu 9.04 ext4 partitions.


So, now I consider ext4 to be stable for stand alone installations,
however I am concerned whether ext4 is still "under development", and
about its implementation to be changed in the future.


My question is this. Can I be sure that an ext4 partition made with the
default options under 9.10, will be portable in the future among
different versions of Ubuntu and among different Linux distributions?




Thanks,


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Ioannis Vranos

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