Ext4 Advances As Interim Step To Btrfs

Posted by kdawson on Sunday October 19, 2008 @03:57PM from the butter-is-better dept.

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.

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Re:WHATS WRONG WITH RIESERFS? by buswolley · 2008-10-19 16:28 · Score: 0, Redundant

Interestingly, I've never heard of an Athiest.

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Re:BTRFS? REALLY? by Dwedit · 2008-10-19 16:51 · Score: 1, Redundant

I think it reads more like "Bit Rot" filesystem, perfect for 20 year old EPROM chips.
Re:Why not ZFS? by ObsessiveMathsFreak · 2008-10-19 20:53 · Score: 0, Redundant

Rather, GPL is incompatible with anything else that can't be re-licensed as GPL,...
Your statement is a tautology.

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