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Originally Posted by retsaw View Post
Early versions of ext4 had issues, after a bit of googling I found this, is this issue fixed in the version of ext4 included with kernel power?

There is also the consideration that ext4 isn't included in the stock kernel, which might cause a problem if you need/want to switch back.
From what I can tell, no. However, I generated a diff (which can be found here) between the 2.6.28.10 snapshot and latest on http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kerne...-stable-2.6.28 and fixed the few discrepancies, so that it now patches against kernel-power47 (and BFS ). Some had already been applied, some had been partially applied and one had had "force_da_alloc=1" added whereas the diff had an if statement added as well (so I went with the latter).

Please note that the patch has been updated since my original post - I'd erroneously included part of the ioctl.c diff that had already been applied, and although it would patch successfully it wouldn't compile (due to a duplicate case statement).

PS: I tried Reiser4, even added an edit into the wiki, but I had to backtrack as it was hammering my CPU and also I had the dmesg errors even with cluster=32K. Basically, my N900 just didn't like it one bit, which is a real shame I'd love to try out btrfs, but I can't find a backport to 2.6.28 anywhere (and it's only really been stable since 2.6.32 anyway) so it's probably not worth the trouble.

Last edited by Tigerite; 2011-05-20 at 11:45.