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Message-ID: <4B73931D.5000302@cox.net> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:18:21 -0600 From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@....net> To: linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: ext5 On 2010-02-10 15:50, tytso@....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 -- 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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