On 05/05/2009 04:08 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 02:52 +0530, Gireesh wrote:
>> I had mistakenly assumed that this would be settable interactively.
>> In fact I don't quite see why it isn't.
> I rather prefer the current setup to manually specify "ext4migrate"
> a) Since ext4 isn't backward compatible to ext3.
> b) users when interactively prompted with a message to choose between
> ext4 and ext3, would most of the time choose ext4 because of the
> higher number without knowing the facts.
There's something to be said for that, however I think hiding it in the
Anaconda options will virtually guarantee that most people, keen to try
out their shiny new F11, simply won't see it.
I think it is better that way. A new filesystem is a big deal. People
upgrading should ideally read the documentation associated with an
upgrade to understand the details. If they don't, they are better off
with the conservative choice.
Rahul