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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workageMar 8, 2008
ext4'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
aeutaMar 8, 2008
Fedora 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....
thtroyerMar 8, 2008
Pre-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.
theaceoffireMar 8, 2008
Less fragmentation of files.
axelillyMar 11, 2008
ext4 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.
lavajoeMar 11, 2008
Great 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.