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Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:42:34 +1000 From: Shehjar Tikoo <shehjart@....unsw.edu.au> To: Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu> CC: postrishi <postrishi@...il.com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Porting Zfs features to ext2/3 Theodore Tso wrote: > On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 08:49:18AM +1000, Shehjar Tikoo wrote: >> Hi Ted >> >> Theodore Tso wrote: >>> The btrfs filesystem effort is an attempt to create a filesystem that >>> will leapfrog the ZFS feature set, but it will probably take longer to >>> reach production ready status than ext4. >> Since you mention btrfs here and since I've read this earlier too, do >> you know if btrfs will be the default Linux file system in the future, >> like extX has been? > > ... > What happens in the future, who can say? At some point the ext2/3/4 > filesystem, which is based fundamentally on a BSD Fast Filesystem > design base, may get displaced by a filesystem which uses some very > different design as a starting point, when the advantages of starting > with that different design outweighs the advantages of backwards > compatibility and broad base of support which is enjoyed by ext2/3/4. Thanks. That sums up the trade-off pretty clearly. -Shehjar -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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