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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GNAA! by Anonymous Coward · 2008-10-19 16:00 · Score: -1, Troll

first!
Re:gnaa by Anonymous Coward · 2008-10-19 17:47 · Score: -1, Troll

what about islamic aboriginals?
Re:BTRFS? REALLY? by BrainInAJar · 2008-10-19 18:37 · Score: -1, Troll

Bitter that ZFS has been on the market and rocking for years now and btrfs is still just a glimmer in some ubuntard's eye?