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rawfuzz

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Registered: 2006-10-07

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Extended Filesystem.. part 4

Noticed that the 2.6.19-rc1-mm1 has the ext4 filesystem added, and thought people might be interested. Not sure if this belongs to Kernel & Hardware tho.. feel free to move it around .
http://www.kr.kernel.org/pub/linux/kern … nounce.txt

Oh yeah, another thing.. GO GO *nix!

Kerala schools log Microsoft out and boot open source systems, Linux world is buzzing with excitement over possibilities in the communist-ruled states.

I know this has nothing to do with the kernel but eh... good things happen
http://www.linuxlinks.com/portal/news/a … 8162407823

Romashka

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Registered: 2005-12-07

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Re: Extended Filesystem.. part 4

It was discussed already.

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iphitus

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

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Re: Extended Filesystem.. part 4

that thread's a few months old now Romashka, it's fine to start a new one.

ext4 doesnt seem all to oriented to the desktop anyway, so I think we'll all be using ext3/reiserfs for quite a while yet.

James

Romashka

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Re: Extended Filesystem.. part 4

that thread's a few months old now Romashka, it's fine to start a new one.

OK, let start. ;-)

ext4 doesnt seem all to oriented to the desktop anyway, so I think we'll all be using ext3/reiserfs for quite a while yet.

Yes, changes like extents, higher limits etc. are mostly useful for servers.
But there may be other features in future.

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Romashka

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Re: Extended Filesystem.. part 4

Useful links for those who are new to Ext4:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext4
http://www.bullopensource.org/ext4/
http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/peop … 4-patches/

Benchmarks:
http://www.bullopensource.org/ext4/sysbench_oltp_64bit/
http://www.bullopensource.org/ext4/iozone_64bit/
http://www.bullopensource.org/ext4/kernbuild_64bit/

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T-Dawg

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Registered: 2005-01-29

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Re: Extended Filesystem.. part 4

I can't wait for my 1024 PetaByte hard drive to come in...

1c3d0g

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Registered: 2006-07-05

Posts: 81

Re: Extended Filesystem.. part 4

As long as they make ext4 STABLE, great. :-)

yankees26

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From: Connecticut, USA

Registered: 2006-09-29

Posts: 190

Re: Extended Filesystem.. part 4

I might try ext4 for the LFS I am about to do (hopefully, unlike my other attempts it'll get past compiling GCC on the first pass (failed at binutils on Ubuntu and GCC on LFS LiveCD  :cry: ).  I'll report back if anything bad happens.

EDIT: Never mind, people on IRC made me want to try XFS