Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 17:54:42 -0400
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
       David Rees <drees76@gmail.com>, Jesper Krogh <jesper@krogh.cc>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.29
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From: lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)
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On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 08:17:35AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> Well, ext4 will be an interim solution you can convert to first.  It
> will be best with a backup/reformat/restore pass, better if you enable
> extents (at least for new files, but then you won't be able to go back
> to ext3), but you'll get improvements even if you just mount an ext3
> filesystem as ext4.

Well I did pickup a 1TB external USB/eSATA drive for pretty much such
a task.  I wasn't sure if ext4 was ready or stable enough to play
with yet though.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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