On 2010-02-10 15:50, 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, so it's something that could be retrofitted into other
filesystems: xfs, btrfs, etc.)
I guess that means every file on the fs?
Windows-like per-file compression would be darned useful in certain
circumstances. Big mbox files, for example.
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Walt
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