From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932081AbWGAXNB (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Jul 2006 19:13:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932085AbWGAXNB (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Jul 2006 19:13:01 -0400 Received: from zeus1.kernel.org ([204.152.191.4]:33211 "EHLO zeus1.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932081AbWGAXM7 (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Jul 2006 19:12:59 -0400 Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2006 19:07:30 +0200 From: Tomasz Torcz To: Thomas Glanzmann , "Theodore Ts'o" , LKML Subject: Re: ext4 features Message-ID: <20060701170729.GB8763@irc.pl> Mail-Followup-To: Thomas Glanzmann , Theodore Ts'o , LKML References: <20060701163301.GB24570@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Bn2rw/3z4jIqBvZU" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060701163301.GB24570@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --Bn2rw/3z4jIqBvZU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 06:33:01PM +0200, Thomas Glanzmann wrote: > Hello, > I would like to know which new features are planed to be incorported by > ext4. So far I only read about supporting bigger filesystems to fit > recent hardware developments. So are there any other big goals for ext4? >=20 > What I personally would like to see most in ext4 are >=20 > * checksums for data Checksums are not very useful for themselves. They are useful when we have other copy of data (think raid mirroring) so data can be reconstructed from working copy. > * and snapshots on filesystem basis What's wrong with DM snapshots? --=20 Tomasz Torcz There exists no separation between gods and men: zdzichu@irc.-nie.spam-.pl one blends softly casual into the other. --Bn2rw/3z4jIqBvZU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: gpg --search-keys Tomasz Torcz iD8DBQFEpqvRThhlKowQALQRAujzAJ9Kz1DxbvIZ9WN4VVhYbVp2yT4kegCfXBwn AnDRykhehW4Zp3RFDjO1w/o= =WYaK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Bn2rw/3z4jIqBvZU--