More of a question then feature request I think, but if/when new kernel gets pushed to the hosts will ext4 as an option for root partition be added?

That would more depend on whether or not the kernel had support for ext4.

As well, you could always build the module yourself. And use Finnix to setup a fully customized linode.

That's why I asked, recently released 2.6.28 added ext4 as a stable filesystem.

2.6.28-linode kernels have been released (i386 and x86_64) and both have the ext4 stuff enabled.

-Chris

I didn't look up what kernel supported it or if newer kernels had better support. I just remember my Gentoo .config had module support for ext4 about a year ago.

It looks like the new kernels are now with linode

Could you report back your speed efficiencies of ext4 over ext3? Just curious.

Adding to the feature request side of things: ext4 support in the dashboard. Right now, my ext4 disk just shows up as 'raw' and has no resize option.

Both should be fairly simple to add. I imagine recognizing the filesystem type would be all that is necessary to get the label right. Doing the resize portion would require sufficiently modern resize2fs binaries, so that may have to wait a bit longer, but hopefully will still not be difficult.

Also, they employ helpers to tweak stuff in the filesystem, I imagine that has to be able to mount the filesystem.

Though I must admit, I have no idea if that's implemented by mounting from the host, or by FUSE, or from a helper VM, etc. Mounting ext4 from the host might be an issue if updates to the code are still fairly frequent and host reboots are not.