GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 503112
Add ext4 filesystem support
Last modified: 2009-01-09 14:17:33 UTC
New ext4 filesystem is out since 2006 and seems to have many advantages over ext3, including the fact that it's a faster filesystem. This is a wishlist bug.
I'd like to confirm this and also link to the ubuntu brainstorm, launchpad bug, and ubuntu forums pages. http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/4468/ https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/137872 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=837589
From the following link, it would appear that ext4 support will be added to the 2.6.28 kernel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext4 A request for recognition of ext4 file systems is logged with the Parted project at: http://parted.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/ticket/188
Support for ext4 file systems has just been committed to the gnome.org SVN repository. Since current versions of libparted incorrectly detect ext4 file systems as ext3, a check was added to GParted to see what the blkid command detects. If blkid reports the file system as ext4, then it will be treated as ext4 by GParted. Longer term it is hoped to get ext4 file system detection built into libparted. Kernel support for ext4 is planned for version 2.6.28 of the Linux kernel. If you wish to use it with lower kernel versions, you will need to patch the kernel accordingly. This enhancement is planned for the next release of GParted (0.4.2). Closing this bug.