EXT4 heads up...

[Doug Hunley]

On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 09:15, Jerry McBride <jmcbride at mail-on.us> wrote:
>> > Personally, I use ext4 quite a bit too. I was really taken back seeing so
>> > many ext4 patches this "late in the game".
>>
>> http://secunia.com/advisories/37658/
>>
>
> I just took a break and counted the number of ext4 fixes in the .1 patch.
> There's 29 not including the security fix... Wow. That's a lot of activity!


Only if you consider thing to be 'late in the game' like above.
Personally, I don't see how anyone believes that this is late in the
game for ext4. It's still in its infancy and the only reason it is
marked 'stable' is because the on-disk format is complete and stable
(essentially). We still have refinements to the allocator coming
along, improvements to the barrier code (more jvf than extN but
still), the new online defrag is coming soon, etc. Check their mailing
list and you'll see there's _tons_ of activty/life in this filesystem.
In fact, ext4 recently got the ability to support ext3 and ext2, so
you only need to compile ext4 into the kernel to support all three.
Which means no more duplicated codebases and ensuring fixes get copied
among all the trunks. Should make for a decent improvement in the
speed of development for extN-related things.
-- 
Douglas J Hunley, RHCT
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Obsessively opposed to the typical.