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Google Switching To EXT4 Filesystem
An anonymous reader writes "Google is in the process of upgrading their existing EXT2 filesystem to the new and improved EXT4 filesystem. Google has benchmarked three different filesystems — XFS, EXT4 and JFS. In their benchmarking, EXT4 and XFS performed equally well. However, in view of the easier upgrade path from EXT2 to EXT4, Google has decided to go ahead with EXT4."
It's probably nothing, probably. But I'm getting a small discrepancy in the file sizes...no, no, it's well within acceptable limits. Continue to stage 2.
I usually let the bit-gods decide what data I have that is important enough to save. Over the years the bit-gods have taught me that:
Music files: not important, Styx crossed the Styx to /dev/null in 2002
Essay written for sophomore year high school english: Important, I assume to haunt me in some future political race.
Porn collection: Like the subject matter within, it swells impressively, explodes, then enters a refractory period until it's ready to build up again.
C++ program that graphs the Mandelbrot set: Important. I like feeling like an explorer navigating the cardioid's canyons.
Photos of my children: Not important. If I need more baby photos, I can just have more babies.
They need to change the name... How about
Object-oriented
Journalled
File
System?
Wait a minute. I'm a manager, and I've been reading a lot of case studies and watching a lot of webcasts about The Cloud. Based on all of this glorious marketing literature, I, as a manager, have absolutely no reason to doubt the safety of any data put in The Cloud.
The case studies all use words like "secure", "MD5", "RSS feeds" and "encryption" to describe the security of The Cloud. I don't know about you, but that sounds damn secure to me! Some Clouds even use SSL and HTTP. That's rock solid in my book.
And don't forget that you have to use Web Services to access The Cloud. Nothing is more secure than SOA and Web Services, with the exception of perhaps SaaS. But I think that Cloud Services 2.0 will combine the tiers into an MVC-compliant stack that uses SaaS to increase the security and partitioning of the data.
My main concern isn't with the security of The Cloud, but rather with getting my Indian team to learn all about it so we can deploy some first-generation The Cloud applications and Web Services to provide the ultimate platform upon which we can layer our business intelligence and reporting, because there are still a few verticals that we need to leverage before we can move to The Cloud 2.0.