On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 12:40:05AM +0100, Anonymous Remailer (austria) wrote: > > will there be ext5? ext4 works just fine so far. but it could be > even more faster. otherwise i have to jump to btrfs (when it's > done). We currently don't have any plans for an "ext5". There might be some new features that might gradually trickle into ext4; for example there's someone who I may be mentoring who is interested in working on an idea I've had to add read-only compression to ext4. (Actually, the design I've sketched out makes 90% of the work be file system independent, so it's something that could be retrofitted into other filesystems: xfs, btrfs, etc.) The benchmarks I've seen don't show that btrfs is that much faster; for some workloads its faster, for others its slower. Of course, there may be some file system tuning that still remains to be done, both for btrfs and ext4, that may change the performance numbers slightly. The main reason why I suspect people will be interested in btrfs is to because of some of its features (i.e., file system level snapshots, data level checksums, etc.) that are unlikely to show up in ext4. I also suspect that btrfs will take a while to mature, as all file systems do. ZFS for example took good five years to development, and perhaps another 3-4 before people started really trusting it for critical production uses. Regards, - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
