From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LSzJK-0003ZY-O9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:45:54 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8B524E0525; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:45:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.187]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44D83E0525 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:45:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rohan.altum.de (p54BB8D26.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.187.141.38]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu0) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MKwh2-1LSzJG2VFv-0002zn; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:45:50 +0100 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rohan.altum.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D730700574 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:45:50 +0100 (CET) Received: from gondolin.localnet (gondolin.altum.de [192.168.2.4]) (Authenticated sender: heini) by rohan.altum.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6EC32700573 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:45:47 +0100 (CET) To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Ext4 another thread From: Dirk Heinrichs Organization: Privat Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:45:40 +0100 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1278304.DcCgs9nQAi"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200901302045.46718.dirk.heinrichs@online.de> X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19ymyETEWpBvFNO0Mb0DwTbT/WRHhCs2EUMBuN h9Wrg+YXjnW7oKTJh79+cFjyR3kWaOKN7DvuRRWcr3yfA/2N99 9w9KdDWkm9edxVL4lkoCw== X-Archives-Salt: d8f49240-18e2-4549-b441-7aed8a52be42 X-Archives-Hash: 00e356afeb4bc4731bff60b62d3f0f67 --nextPart1278304.DcCgs9nQAi Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Am Freitag, 30. Januar 2009 19:49:33 schrieb Harry Putnam: > I didn't want to derail the existing thread discussing ext4 with this > angle ... I'm guessing there may be comments that will not be helpful > to that OP. > > I'm wondering what people running ext4 are seeing in practice that > makes it better than ext3 or reiserfs? Is it safer journalling? Faster > read/write? ... That's indeed an interesting question. I'd say to some extend it's answered= in=20 [1]. However, to me it looks like just another filesystem in the classical= =20 sense. The one that really brings something new to the Linux filesystem wor= ld=20 will be btrfs. I've already tried some older versions of it and it looks ve= ry=20 promising. Volumes, RAID, data integrity, etc, all integrated into the=20 filesystem, similar to Suns ZFS. Bye... Dirk [1]: http://kernelnewbies.org/Ext4 --nextPart1278304.DcCgs9nQAi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBJg1jq8NVtnsLkZ7sRAuOyAKCCYZD/5LgBQm2ycvX/AjEudXRHnACggGrn 9Uv/lfeU43j82iZUlT19u5Q= =YbZ0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1278304.DcCgs9nQAi--