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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."
I'm too lazy to read up on ext4, so:
Why not just use ReiserFS? It's definitely faster than ext3.
Because it was convicted of murder, that's why.
Because it takes a mad computer scientist to implement it.
Some of the minor features are just... less than desirable.
for when you need to partition your wife.
Sounds like someone should learn perl or python and get to it!
c++;
There is a saying in Spanish, which translated says:
"They are braver than the first men to try oysters!"
No sig for the moment.
"Why not just use ReiserFS?"
Vendor lock-in?
This is the part where I tell you I have a 50Mb/s down connection from Comcast that gets close to that, and you come search me out with an ice pick.