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EXT4 Is Coming

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the we're-going-five-blades dept.

ah admin writes "A series of patches has been proposed in Linux kernel mailing list earlier by a team of engineers from Red Hat, ClusterFS, IBM and Bull to extend the Ext3 filesystem to add support for very large filesystems. After a long-winded discussion, the developers came forward with a plan to roll these changes into a new version — Ext4."

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  1. Re:define very large by Kjella · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Let me put it this way, it's a little past the average slashdot porn collection:

    ext3: 8TB total, 4TB files
    ext4: 32 zettabyte (1024*1024*1024 TB), 1 exabyte files (1024*1024 TB)

    Beyond that, it doesn't seem to actually change much.

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