Ext4 filesystem is coming!!

[praka123]

"A series of patches has been proposed in Linux kernel mailing list earlier by a team of engineers from Red Hat, ClusterFS, IBM and Bull to extend the Ext3 filesystem to add support for very large filesystems. After a long-winded discussion, the developers came forward with a plan to roll these changes into a new version — Ext4."

http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/06/07/01/1312249.shtml

[JGuru]

That would be very helpful for the Enterprise. Good move. I also saw there would be
backward compatibility with ext3 filesystem. Which is very important. Any idea when
ext4 is shipping? Right now it's been developed, have to go through lot of hurdles,
testing phases etc.,

[gary4gar]

great news
a small query regarding partions:can ntfs pastions be mounted are read/write

[mehulved]

Check this link for more information on development of ext4fs http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/6/28/454

@gary yes ntfs can be mounted as read-write. See captive-ntfs project. But, of what I tried I didn't like it at all. Write speed are way too slow.

[nitish_mythology]

This clearly shows tht LInux is zooming ahed with time....
Can anyone tell me the meaning of ext?

[cool_dude_prav]

Originally Posted by nitish_mythology

This clearly shows tht LInux is zooming ahed with time....
Can anyone tell me the meaning of ext?

Read here...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_file_system

[Kniwor]

Originally Posted by gary4gar

great news
a small query regarding partions:can ntfs pastions be mounted are read/write

there are ways to mount ntfs read/write none is said to be fully reliable...

they are slow, so they are good if u want to edit some files occationally, but a permanent mount and daily work is not possible at this clow rate...

for example i use captive to mount ntfs on my bootable HDD in SLAX.... it works good but is sloe writing