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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2005-07-06
I respectfully disagree. The btrfs feature set was carefully selected to include features that are actually useful in the real world, without all the pie-in-the-sky crap that Reiser4 promised, and without all the VFS pollution that it delivered. "
True, I think the focus should be on 'real world' features that are useful rather than great engineering feats but result in nothing beneficial when the rubber hits the road. With that being said, there still needs to be more work done on responsiveness. I have Fedora 8, for example, and when I try to run something heavy CPU utilisation I find that the responsiveness when browsing and downloading websites slows dramatically.
Small things like that need to be fixed. Yes, I know it isn't explicitly related to the ext4fs, but at the same time, this has to do with the over all need to refocus by Linux developers on what affects the end users on a regular basis.