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Ext4 Advances As Interim Step To Btrfs
Heise.de's Kernel Log has a look at the ext4 filesystem as Linus Torvalds has integrated a large collection of patches for it into the kernel main branch. "This signals that with the next kernel version 2.6.28, the successor to ext3 will finally leave behind its 'hot' development phase." The article notes that ext4 developer Theodore Ts'o (tytso) is in favor of ultimately moving Linux to a modern, "next-generation" file system. His preferred choice is btrfs, and Heise notes an email Ts'o sent to the Linux Kernel Mailing List a week back positioning ext4 as a bridge to btrfs.
So it incorporates compression by vowel ommission? Brllnt!
Butter FS? Are you kidding me?
Here is your first official list of jokes. Please contribute.
1. You're still running ext4? I can't believe it's not ButterFS!
2. But will it run on toast?
3. Will fsck be renamed to butterknife?
4. If your system overheats will your filesystem melt?
5. If you use ButterFS too much, will it turn into FAT?
6. If you leave ButterFS on your volume too long, will your hard drive start to reek?
7. Will the next version of ButterFS be called GoatButterFS, just like the next version of Leopard is Snow Leopard?
8. "Tough" notebooks will never have their hard drives formatted with ButterFS, because if you dropped them, they would always land hard drive down.
9. When you submit your dead ButterFS hard drive to a data recovery centre, will they have an intern lick it to get the data off instead of putting it under a read head?
These are getting kind of desperate -- your turn now.
Honestly, what is it with FOSS and crappy names? (looking at you, gimp)
Great for playing "Hello Kitty! Adventures"
Anybody want my mod points?
Butter Fase probably intended as Butter Face.
Sounds like "But Her Face" as in: She has a great body, but her face...
A Linux article on Slashdot!?
Wouldn't the world be so, so, so much nicer if users understood that the actual importance of a document is reflected in how carefully they stored it, not how angry they get when you can't get it back?
You're right. BTRFS is really silly. I recommend that the shortened form be ButtFS.
Good, strong file-bearing hips!
DRM: Terminator crops for your mind!
That's exactly what they're doing. The plan is to limit every directory to exactly two files or subdirectories that will be kept in alphabetical order. That way, you can find any file on your drive in log(n) time. Future updates are planned for people who have more than two songs by the same artist.
Huh. One of the interesting things things about Reiser4 from an end-user perspective was Hans Reisers plans for file metadata.
No, the most interesting feature of ReiserFS is this one (look to the far right).
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ReiserFS: It puts the "stab" in "/etc/fstab".
I read it as BeaterFS and wondered if it was too soon for ReiserFS jokes.
Yep, BeaTeR FS is a kinder, gentler alternative to Reiser FS.
This is the internet, it's never too soon.
So you're saying someone should run a defrag on these filesystem projects?
They feed him. They put a roof over his head.
They even bathe him.
He might as well devote himself to filesystems.
You think that's bad? The file system check command is buttfsck!
Just search for benchmarks, something like reiserfs beats ext2 by huge margins when it comes to important workloads such as a mail server.
Hell, it probably beats it to death.
== Jez ==
Do you miss Firefox? Try Pale Moon.
I can't believe it's not better.
Exactly. I couldn't even imagine where Linux would be right now if it weren't driven by a bunch of egotistical nerds clamoring for their own implementation of something rather than incorporating someone else' extremely capable and far more mature existing implementation.
Similes are like metaphors