Linked by Rahul on Mon 13th Oct 2008 21:19 UTC
Linux Foundation is organizing a end user collaboration summit this week. A major topic will be a presentation on the new upcoming filesystems - Ext4 and Btrfs. Ted Tso, who is a Linux kernel filesystem developer on a sabbatical from IBM working for Linux Foundation for a year, has talked about the two-pronged approach for the Linux kernel, taking a incremental approach with Ext4 while simultaneously working on the next generation filesystem called btrfs. Read more for details.
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2008-03-15
I've wondered about that too, I don't know why the memory exhaustion problems don't exist on Solaris (FreeBSD uses swap also of course, but its a dedicated partition rather than a file); are you using 32 bit?
Edited 2008-10-17 08:27 UTC