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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. How does it compare to zfs? by smartin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I've heard good things about zfs, event that apple may adopt it, does any one know how it compares to ext4?

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