ext4

[Doug Hunley]

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 15:24, Michael Hipp <Michael at hipp.com> wrote:
> Not really looking for anything specific. I just saw a blurb that it is much
> better than ext3 and ready for primetime. But I thought it wasn't quite that
> far along.

I've been using it for a while now. If you take advantage of the new
features (which changes the filesystem layout, see my other email)
then it is faster than ext3 and is better at space alllocation (I "got
back" about 2% of my 1Tb raid after converting everything to extents).
Ext4 is also better about not causing fragmentation, if you care about
that kinda thing (online defrag is coming soon, btw).

In all honesty, if you're happy w/ what you have and aren't jonesing
for ext4, I'd wait until btrfs becomes stable and then convert to it.
It's gonna rock

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