From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
To: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ext5
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:18:21 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B73931D.5000302@cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100210215028.GD739@thunk.org>
On 2010-02-10 15:50, tytso@mit.edu 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.
--
"Hell hath no fury like the vast robot armies of a woman scorned."
Walt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-11 5:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-09 23:40 ext5 Anonymous Remailer (austria)
2010-02-10 21:50 ` ext5 tytso
2010-02-11 3:38 ` ext5 Manish Katiyar
2010-02-11 4:30 ` ext5 tytso
2010-02-11 17:55 ` ext5 Jan Kara
2010-02-11 19:31 ` ext5 tytso
2010-02-11 5:18 ` Ron Johnson [this message]
2010-02-11 6:44 ` ext5 tytso
2010-02-11 16:49 ` ext5 Ron Johnson
2010-02-11 21:41 ` ext5 Goswin von Brederlow
2010-02-12 4:47 ` ext5 Ron Johnson
2010-02-12 16:02 ` ext5 tytso
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