Fedora 11 To Default To the Ext4 File System

[ThinkFree]

"The next release of Fedora, 11, will default to the ext4 file system unless serious regressions are seen, as reported by heise online. The LWN story has a few comments extolling the virtues of the file system. Some benchmarks have shown ext4 to be much faster than the current default ext3. Some of the new features that matter for desktop users are a faster file system check, extents support (for efficiently storing large files and reducing fragmentation), multiblock allocation (faster writes), delayed block allocation, journal checksumming (saving against power / hardware failures), and others. The KernelNewbies page has more information on each feature. As is the extfs tradition, mounting a current ext3 filesystem as ext4 will work seamlessly; however, most new features will not be available with the same on-disk format, meaning a fresh format with ext4 or converting the disk layout to ext4 will offer the best experience."

http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl.../01/23/1341237

[Liverpool_fan]

I know.
Ext4 sounds promising, and I hope it keep up with it as well.

BTW BrtFS and Reiser4 look promising as well.

Unfortunately, the World's Best Filesystem...ever...ZFS would never work on Linux. And no not due to Technical Difficulties, nor due to indifference of its creator: Sun nor any problem with Linux itself; but due to crappy licensing issues. (stupid GPL )
(sorry went a bit offtopic, couldn't resist)

[Faun]

thats a long ride, i can relax with LTS now
Finally sojourning in Ubuntu plateau.