Migrating to Ext 4

[Riverrun]

How difficult would it be to move to extension 3 and what are the advantages?
Would it require the compilation of a new kernel in Ibex?
I don't have a discrete home partition just these three: sda1, sda2 and sda5.

[Riverrun]

I guess that it couldn't be accomplished on a mounted drive so that would mean using the Live CD?

[Arup]

Try it on unpartitioned space and it should work out.

[Mrkvonic]

I don't think as a user you'll see any major differences. Might wanna read this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems

Bear in mind that ext4 is a young filesystem, so I recommend you thoroughly test on non-mission-critical systems before fully committing.

The underlying filesystem does not dictate the kernel behavior, but it can affect performance, stability and data corruption/recovery. For most home users, any journaled filesystem will give similar results.

Mrk

[Riverrun]

-{ Quote: "Try it on unpartitioned space and it should work out." }-

I'll try it out on an external first.

[Riverrun]

-{ Quote: "I don't think as a user you'll see any major differences. Might wanna read this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems

Bear in mind that ext4 is a young filesystem, so I recommend you thoroughly test on non-mission-critical systems before fully committing.

The underlying filesystem does not dictate the kernel behavior, but it can affect performance, stability and data corruption/recovery. For most home users, any journaled filesystem will give similar results.

Mrk" }-

That's good advise. I'll try it on a non-critical partition on an external first and will probably wait until Ubuntu or another of the leading Distros adopt it before using it on my production machine.