Will Debian 6 stable have ext4 filesystem?
 

Will Debian 6 stable have ext4 filesystem?

ext4 appeared in 2.6.28 and Squeeze is already at 2.6.32.. so I'm going with "yes"

And if you download the squeeze netinstall image, ext4 is in it as a choice, so I doubt they'd pull it out when they migrate squeeze to stable.

Assuming that it will definitely have kernel > 2.6.27 and grub2 or patched grub to support ext4, then yes.

yes. the kernel for Squeeze will at the very least be 2.6.32 and grub2 is the default.

I would say, it will do fine!
 

I have it up and running here with debian testing. This will be released soon. I was quite insecure, if I should stay with ext3 or format a new hard disc to ext4, if there could be any drawbacks. Reason for ext4 to me is the large size of new hard discs, so I don't want to wait for ages until a fsck ist over. In comparison boot time increases from 58s to 46s on the same hardware with quite the same os (future debian 6 "squeeze"). This is an increase of 20% roughly - on a PC that is 5 years old now! Grub2 needed some additional support for ext4 afaik. I have ext4 in use for /-partition and /home-partition.

I know that debian is something that has many applications and projects working on it and ext4 seems to be stable at this point in time so I do not see any reason why ext4 should not be included in the debian default. If slackware says ext4 is stable then it is. With everything migrating to ext4 I do not think debian has a chance to deny ext4 in the next release.

Who said it was?

And who made Slackware lord of Debian?

Not intending to derail the thread here, but would ext4 offer any major improvements over ext3 for a laptop/desktop user? I toyed with the idea of using ext4 when I installed squeeze, but decided to stick with ext3.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext4#Features

Faster fscking, for one.

I have used ext4 since Ubuntu 9.04 (ext4 was optional) and have had no troubles with it at all.

I have tried using ext3 on one install and ext4 on another identical install since that time. When I installed Debian testing (squeeze) I did not even consider ext3 as it is slower on my desktop.