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On the State of Linux File Systems

Posted by kdawson on from the here-hold-this-for-me dept.

kev009 writes to recommend his editorial overview of the past, present and future of Linux file systems: ext2, ext3, ReiserFS, XFS, JFS, Reiser4, ext4, Btrfs, and Tux3. "In hindsight it seems somewhat tragic that JFS or even XFS didn't gain the traction that ext3 did to pull us through the 'classic' era, but ext3 has proven very reliable and has received consistent care and feeding to keep it performing decently. ... With ext4 coming out in kernel 2.6.28, we should have a nice holdover until Btrfs or Tux3 begin to stabilize. The Btrfs developers have been working on a development sprint and it is likely that the code will be merged into Linus's kernel within the next cycle or two."

12 of 319 comments (clear)

  1. Re:ZFS!! by TheRaven64 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sun has released it under a proper license and we can finally have 1 unified filesystem. The 'we' in this case being Solaris, Mac OS X, and FreeBSD users, of course.

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  2. But... by El_Muerte_TDS · · Score: 2, Funny

    is it ready for the desktop?

  3. I propose a new file system.. by Minigun_Fiend · · Score: 5, Funny

    ..called TLDRFS It simply ignores any files larger than 64KB.

    1. Re:I propose a new file system.. by Atriqus · · Score: 2, Funny

      No, the cutoff should be 640K since 64K might not be enough for everybody.

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  4. Re:Lightweight by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Appologies accepted.

    Anonymous Cow

  5. Re:what fs out there... by Knuckles · · Score: 5, Funny

    You seem very knowledgeable regarding filesystems in general.

    Dude, it should have been a hint when tytso wrote,

    I was the e2fsprogs maintainer, and especially in the last year, as the most experienced upstream kernel developer have been responsible for patch quality assurance and pushing the patches upstream.

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  6. Alllrig.... Oh. by Gazzonyx · · Score: 5, Funny

    Never have I been so happy and so angry in such a short period of time. I salute you, yet still shake my fist angrily in your general direction.

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  7. parodizing _what_, exactly? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Could you tell us which song this post is a parody of? Thanks.

  8. Re:what fs out there... by Kent+Recal · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ah, anyone can edit wikipedia. I say he's just showing off to get the chicks!

  9. Re:The article is incorrect with respect to ext4.. by ChameleonDave · · Score: 4, Funny

    Repeato ad absurdium...

    What is that gibberish supposed to mean? Christ, I hate mock-Latin. If you want a fancy-sounding term referring to repeating something again and again, use ad nauseam.

  10. Re:EXT appropriate for desktop? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    But reiserFS support is dwindling (on ubuntu it costs me 10 seconds during a 40 second boot and all i get, from various sources, is that reiserFS is not supported i should use ext3).

    OMG! Someone killed ReiserFS!

  11. Re:Lightweight by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Paper for an open-access database-related journal:
    "Anonymous COW, a new Copy-on-Write technique
    for beef-oblivious filesystems"