Ext4 Filesystem Enters Experimental Kernel Tree

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday October 13, 2006 @12:08AM

An anonymous reader writes "Looks like the next version of the venerable Linux 'ext' filesystem is just around the corner. Andrew Morton has added an early version of ext4 to his 2.6.19-rc1-mm1 tree, enabling Linux to support storage volumes up to 1020 petabytes in size, and to write files in 'extents,' or contiguous, reserved areas. According to an article at Linux-Watch, ext4 will be ready for production use within six to nine months, if all goes well. On the downside, the new ext4 filesystem will offer only limited backward compatibility with ext3-aware Linux kernels."

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1020 Petabytes? by BenBenBen · 2006-10-13 00:17 · Score: 5, Funny

1 Exabyte!

Not to be confused with Excitebike, which is something entirely different.

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fsck by tttonyyy · 2006-10-13 00:19 · Score: 4, Funny

EXT4-fs warning (device sdb1): ext4_journal_start_sb: Detected tasteless ReiserFS jokes - hahahaha!

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Re:1020 petas by Zaatxe · 2006-10-13 01:08 · Score: 4, Funny

>> 1020 petabytes
My porn collection will now be complete.

Liar... there is no such thing as a complete porn collection!

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