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Eric Sandeen - ext4 Implementation in Fedora 9
fedoraproject.org — One major feature present in Fedora 9 will be the ext4 implementation, the new filesystem will not be the default for the distro but will be avaliable for users and systems administrators to be used in their systems. New funcionalities as the bigger capacities and online defragmentation is provided to grant better performance and bigger reliability
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- Workage, on 03/08/2008, -1/+3ext4's a wonderful filesystem that would put NTFS to shame. Be great to know when Reiser4 will be implemented? Running under Fedora it would be killer! (cutting edge OS designed to help RedHats commercial product)
*Also since I never comment much, just wanted to add its funny all the 'technical' terms doing spellcheck were not found. Fascinating for a site where technology is the main theme- mooninite, on 03/08/2008, -3/+5Mind you, Kevin Rose and friends use OS X, not Linux.
Besides, you should be using Firefox's built-in spell checking? - ineptsavant, on 03/08/2008, -2/+3I'm not sure if his status has changed, but the creator of ReiserFS was/is in prison for killing his wife. The future seems a little unstable with a developer development like that.
- ZippyV, on 03/08/2008, -4/+1***ext4's a wonderful file system that would put NTFS to shame.***
Does ext4 support now more permissions than just Read, Write and Execute?- theaceoffire, on 03/08/2008, -0/+1Less fragmentation of files.
- smacksaw, on 03/08/2008, -0/+1Agreed. I am fooling around with Mythbuntu right now since I decided to wipe my drive and start over. Somehow, magically, my Dell MediaDirect feature decided to bluescreen with Kubuntu on the same system. There was a corruption somewhere. I give up on this *****.
- mooninite, on 03/08/2008, -3/+5Mind you, Kevin Rose and friends use OS X, not Linux.
- Aeuta, on 03/08/2008, -0/+2Fedora seems to be the usable"cutting edge" Linux distribution I think I will give Fedora 8 a try..dam I wish 9 was coming out a bit earlier so I could try it before Ubuntu 8.04....
- mooninite, on 03/08/2008, -0/+2Fedora 9 Alpha LiveCDs are available now... I just burned a few today.
- rMenezes, on 03/08/2008, -0/+1Some friends of mine are using the Alpha Fedora 9 withou problems. They are telling me that the system is very stable.
- thtroyer, on 03/08/2008, -0/+1Pre-releases are called 'unstable' for a reason. Some people can use them fine, but some will crash and burn.
Your mileage will vary with an Alpha release.
- thtroyer, on 03/08/2008, -0/+1Pre-releases are called 'unstable' for a reason. Some people can use them fine, but some will crash and burn.
- spudlyo, on 03/08/2008, -0/+1"ext4 will also make use of in-inode extended attributes, which should make things like SELinux, beagle, and samba acls more efficient."
I've always thought that traditional UNIX file/directory permissions were a bit limited. This is nice to see. - MrSarcasm, on 03/08/2008, -0/+1I don't know, ReiserFS seems like an ext4 killer.
- axelilly, on 03/11/2008, -0/+1ext4 does sound like a really great improvement in so many ways. As a system administrator, I'm glad to know it will be available soon for those super large file storage servers. It will be exciting to see what new tools become available for the system as well. Looking forward to testing it out on a Fedora 9 live image.
- LavaJoe, on 03/11/2008, -0/+0Great to hear there are some nice features in ext4. The one thing I wish it had was data checksums or some way of maintaining data integrity through the whole interface->cable->drive chain (a la ZFS). I have had two known cases of silent data corruption (different hardware, many years separated) - if I had not explicitly checked/diffed the files, I would not have noticed. As drives get larger, this problem will grow more and more troublesome.
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