Re: ext4 features

Tomasz Torcz
2006-07-01T23:13:01Z

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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?
>
> What I personally would like to see most in ext4 are
>
> * 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?

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