ext4

[Gary Wilson]

Terence wrote:
> I'm using reiserfs (and have done so for years with no problems at all).
>
> What's the current state with reiserfs -there seems to be little
> around on the lists about it ?
>
> What are the advantages of ext4?
>
> (sorry for my current lack of knowledge, but,  "what with being happy
> with reiserfs and all"..)
>
>   
I think that after Reiser took the cops to where he'd killed and buried 
his wife, development of reiserfs stopped (http://tinyurl.com/cx4rjj). 
Even Suse (now Novell) dropped reiserfs. The future is not with 
reiserfs, I think.

Ext4 is supposed to be an improvement of ext2 and ext3. A few years ago, 
Red Hat hired Eric Sandeen, who had worked on the XFS filesystem at SGI, 
and he's be key to the development of ext4. So I think that ext4 has 
incorporated some of the elements of XFS like using extents. The 
wikipedia page on ext4 has a good summary of the new features at 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext4.

Gary