Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 10th Mar 2008 17:27 UTC, submitted by Rodrigo Menezes
"One major feature present in Fedora 9 will be the ext4 implementation. The new filesystem will not be the default for the distribution, but will be available for users and systems administrators to enable. New functionality includes larger capacities and online defragmentation, for better performance and more reliability. To find out more, we talked with Eric Sandeen, Fedora project member and filesystem developer at Red Hat."
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Online defrag... selecting just one directory or a few files to defrag... It sounds too good to be true ;-) But those wizards will do it, for sure. I'm very happy with ext*. Most of my data is living in an ext world.
The btrfs filesystem memtioned in the interview is still in heavy development, although it looks like it will have interesting features, like online fscheck. I would like that for ext4.
http://oss.oracle.com/projects/btrfs/