Comment 183 for bug 330824

Regarding Øyvind's wise words...

I completely agree Øyvind and you are right sir. That said, there are an awful lot of people (like me) who have opted for ext4 believing that any major bugs would be sorted in the usual timely fashion that we have come to enjoy from the Ubuntu community. I think in retrospect ext4 should not have been offered as an option because it is just 'too tempting' to either take the option at install time or follow the procedure for upgrading from ext3 to ext4; you only have to look at the plethora of posts in this and other fora to see how many folk (a lot of them newbies to Linux and/or technically weak) were and still are desperate to try out the new FS because that is a normal human trait.

I can live with the bug or go back to ext3 and wait for KK; my post was not really about me. My real point is the damage to reputation and trust that something like this has with the public at large, particularly those 'converts' from Window$ who maybe are not as technically minded as us (and use such fora as this to research what is going on) who will 'bad mouth' Linux/Ubuntu and got back to Windoze for all the wrong reasons.

My personal advice... either the bug gets fixed in a timely fashion or a much stronger warning is issued (including taking the option away to opt for ext4).

Please be assured of my best intentions... Ubuntu is king in my book! Here endeth my lesson, I will not post further on the issue unless I spot a solution ;-)