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Fedora 11 To Default To the Ext4 File System
ffs writes "The next release of Fedora, 11, will default to the ext4 file system unless serious regressions are seen, as reported by heise online. The LWN story has a few comments extolling the virtues of the file system. Some benchmarks have shown ext4 to be much faster than the current default ext3. Some of the new features that matter for desktop users are a faster file system check, extents support (for efficiently storing large files and reducing fragmentation), multiblock allocation (faster writes), delayed block allocation, journal checksumming (saving against power / hardware failures), and others. The KernelNewbies page has more information on each feature. As is the extfs tradition, mounting a current ext3 filesystem as ext4 will work seamlessly; however, most new features will not be available with the same on-disk format, meaning a fresh format with ext4 or converting the disk layout to ext4 will offer the best experience."
You are an idiot.
Ext4 was designed by the open-source communists who are responsible for Ubuntu, Linux for Subhumans. Of course it's inferior, much like the niggers who work on and use the leading FOSS home operating system it is associated with.
For fuck's sake, stop whining and run Debian stable. Everyone else is going to move on as better things are available and, for all practical purposes, quite stable.
I agree but Fedora 9 and 10 are so full of bugs that calling them beta releases is also an overstatement, especially half assed GDM in 9 and 10. What a joke.