EXT4

I've been hearing all the hypes about ext4 and how fast it boots up your OS so I am about to try it out. Linux kernel 2.6.28 has it in there.

make menuconfig
make
make modules
make modules_install
make install

Well, that's nice. 'make install' did everything for me in grub. I thought I will have to do it the manual way back in the 2.4.xx days.

Hmm I need the latest e2fsprogs (1.41.3). Downloaded and compiled and there it is, mkfs.ext4.

Trying it on a spare drive:

mkfs.ext4 -j /dev/hdb1
mount -t ext4 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1/

It mounted w/o any prpblem. I'll see if this is any better than ext3.

Well, that's it for now.

-foo