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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Re:Reiser4 by Profane+MuthaFucka · 2006-10-13 00:24 · Score: 0, Offtopic

http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/so-i-marri ed-a-kernel-programmer

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Re:1020 Petabytes? by tomhudson · 2006-10-13 00:26 · Score: 0, Offtopic

What will happen? We store our digital photos in raw format, not JPEG. We store our songs in raw format, not artificially crippled. We will store high-definition video, possibly even in raw format, not MPEG4 or the likes.

Come on, admit it ... what you really mean is you'll store your pr0n in raw format ... and you'll STILL be complaining that you don't have enough disk space.