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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. Yawn, large filesystems by Gothmolly · · Score: -1, Troll

    So there's a bunch of FSes out there that support large filesystems. And now ext3fs will. Who cares?

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  2. Re:Sounds like a good idea. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Reiser4 is such a good FS... its BS its not considered "stable".

  3. Too late... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Reiser4 is stable for at least 1 1/2 years now. Why not include that? Because of the changes that would go beyond of the focus of the FS layer?

    First of all, they should return to the old development model and put all the broken stuff from 2.6.x into 2.7.x instead of continuing this 2.6.x.y BS.

    I don't want to make these decisions myself by abandoning Linux for FreeBSD.

  4. More features - More bugs by bazmail · · Score: -1, Troll

    The ist of bugs for the kernel is growing faster than they are being fixed.

    inux is now built on a foundation of sand. Time to jump ship methinks.

  5. 2.7.x is coming by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    2.6.x.y is getting ridiculous.