On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 8:03 AM, Nick Krause <xerofoify@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hey Guys, > This commit seems to be needed to fixed up based on what the btrfs > developers, are stating on their wiki. > Other then the TODO list, which we can discuss here, is there any > other parts of this patch that need to > be rewritten, it's merged as of now but I can recreate new patches if > needed from Linus's tree. The project > idea is Clear unallocated space on the btrfs wiki. I AM NOT asking you > to write the code just want to known > is how you want this cleaned up. > Cheers Nick > Hey Nick, It seems like you are an expert on btrfs . Can you please let me know a few questions i have : 1) is btrfs better than ext4 ? if yes , how ? 2) what is the main difference in the implementation of ext4 and btrfs ? 3) I know very little about file systems , but i know ext4 uses journaling file system. will you please care to explain what is journaling file system? 4) btrfs supports online defragmentation ... how that is implemented ? Thanks Sudip PS : a simple google search will give the answers , but i will want the answers from Nick . _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
