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Gordon Henderson wrote: > > Anyone using ext4 yet? > > Building a new server for a client and am thinking about it - it all > seems well supported in Debian Lenny and the 2.6.29 kernel. Probably > no advantage over ext3 for this application, but it might be good to > eek every ounce out of the disks (it's going to be a busy little LAMP > box) > > Incidentally - the disk are WDC 640GB dual platter jobbies. Very fast > for a 7200 RPM drive - relatively cheap too! (£45) I'm seeing > transfers of over 110MB/sec out of a single drive. > > Gordon I'm using ext4 on my notebook for the / partition, so far not had any problems even after a power failure. I haven't started using it for my /home partition just yet, I'm still using ext3 for that as I did read something about possible data corruption but I gather it has now been fixed. Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html