Star Enhanced Linux Filesystem Nears Production Kernel
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 12th Oct 2006 22:45 UTC, submitted by anonymous
Linux Ext3 has become one of the most popular Linux filesystems. However, with hard drives sneaking up on a terabyte, concerns exist that ext3 won't be able to handle 21st-century storage requirements. With this in mind, the Linux kernel developers have just released the first real-world test version of ext4.
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by nii_ on Thu 12th Oct 2006 20:30 UTC
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2005-07-11

Its not bad with choice, but we already have so many filesystems that are supposed to scale well, are open source, and are free software.

We have XFS, JFS (version 1), BeFS (BFS), and the latest ReiserFS, amongst surely more.

Although it is early for ext4, it would be nice to see how the current incarnation performs against these.

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by miscz on Fri 13th Oct 2006 11:02 in reply to "others"
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2005-07-17

Ext4 is a lot better in practical situations, upgrading from Ext3 to Ext4 is supposed to be as easy as Ext2 to Ext3. I hoped that Reiser would have some tools for conversion from v3 to v4 but there are none. Easy migration is a killer feature for a lot of people.

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