Ext4 Filesystem Enters Experimental Kernel Tree

An anonymous reader writes "Looks like the next version of the venerable Linux 'ext' filesystem is just around the corner. Andrew Morton has added an early version of ext4 to his 2.6.19-rc1-mm1 tree, enabling Linux to support storage volumes up to 1020 petabytes in size, and to write files in 'extents,' or contiguous, reserved areas. According to an article at Linux-Watch, ext4 will be ready for production use within six to nine months, if all goes well. On the downside, the new ext4 filesystem will offer only limited backward compatibility with ext3-aware Linux kernels."

Reiser4

[Anonymous Coward]

Unfortunately, this will just murder Reiser4.

1020 Petabytes?

[BenBenBen]

1 Exabyte!

Not to be confused with Excitebike, which is something entirely different.

fsck

[tttonyyy]

EXT4-fs warning (device sdb1): ext4_journal_start_sb: Detected tasteless ReiserFS jokes - hahahaha!

1020 petas

[blantonl]

>> 1020 petabytes

My porn collection will now be complete.

Wow

[knipknap]

enabling Linux to support storage volumes up to 1020 petabytes in size

Now, is there anybody who still believes that porn does not drive innovation?

Re:Reiser4

[Anonymous Coward]

the police were wishing that ext3 had murdered his wife instead, because then the body wouldn't have been cut up into so many small pieces.

640k

[malzraa]

Who needs ext4? I'm perfectly satisfied with my 640k, and so should you!

Re:1020 petas

[Zaatxe]

>> 1020 petabytes
My porn collection will now be complete.

Liar... there is no such thing as a complete porn collection!

Re:1020 Petabytes?

[AccUser]

it's unlikely they'll be able to fill it with anything

People always used to ask me if I had the internet at home. Maybe when I can get my hands on a 1020 PB hard drive, I will be able to download it all for local access... :-)

Re:Interesting in light of OpenSuSE's decision...

[D4rk Fx]

Perhaps Hans' wife suggested a Fix to Reiser 3 that wasn't a bug?

Re:1020 Petabytes?

[ndsbriand]

BenBenBen wrote:

1 Exabyte!

You are hereby notified to refrain from using our trademark in such a manner. If such pratices continue, we may be forced to take legal action.

Regards,


Exabyte Corporation

Re:1020 petas

[Anonymous Coward]

Talking about Godel's porn incompleteness theorem. ;P

I knew a guy...

[porkchop_d_clown]

who wanted to delete some of the preference files in his home directory, so he typed

rm -rf .*

It never occurred to him (or me) that ".." matched that pattern. He worked his way right up the directory tree and back down again...