I recently found out that some wikipedia info about ext4 disadvantages was out of date and that it is in modern times probably a good choice over ext3 in most cases.
Anyways, this is relevant because I had formatted my digital audio workstation partition as ext3, which is still a great invention, but if i understand the documentation, is slightly less save unless the "barrier" parameter is set manually (it's off by default).
Anyways, ext4 has some performance advantages and I had to learn how to convert from ext3 to ext4 and it turned out to be pretty easy, so I'm happy.
I had one snafu, i tried performing one of the necessary commands from an old LiveCD, and it said something or other was missing from Canonical. But I was able to run checkdisk from within gParted and everything got maintained and I didn't lose any data nor have any issues after bootup.
So now I can expect my workstation to be just a little bit faster even though it was already fast enough to get pretty good projects done.
I can probably push things just a little bit more if I get adventurous.
Long story short, I am relieved at the ease of doing a major filesystem change and impressed with the sophistication of the software.
Feeling relieved about upgrade from ext3 to ext4
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