On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 3:20 AM, <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote: > 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, Hi Ted, Is this design somewhere on net so that we can read/lookup it up ? Thanks - Manish > 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 > -- Thanks - Manish ================================== [$\*.^ -- I miss being one of them ================================== -- 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
