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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The btrfs will be the next killer fs for Linux. What reiser4 promised, will be delivered by btrfs.
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 polution that it delivered.
It is a feature set that is ambitious enough to be exciting, but not so overly-ambitious as to be unattainable in a reasonable time frame.
And unlike Hans, Chris seems like a good team player, who is interested in working *with* the greater community. And that bodes well for his exciting new filesystem.
As the ext3 vs reiser4 faked benchmark fiasco, and his general demeanor so clearly demonstrated, Hans could not be trusted, nor could he be relied upon to act with the interests of the community at heart.
I'm and ext3/4 fan. But I look forward to a usable btrfs with great anticipation.
Edited 2008-03-10 20:09 UTC
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2005-07-06
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/