Linux: Reiser4's Future
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| Concerns that the filesystem wasn't being maintained were laid to
| rest when Andrew Morton [interview] stated, "the namesys engineers
| continue to maintain reiser4 and I continue to receive patches
| for it."
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http://kerneltrap.org/node/8102
Related:
Comparison of File Systems, Interfaces and OSes for an External IDE Hard
Drive Enclosure
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| I decided to buy an external hard drive enclosure for the purpose of
| backing up and storing additional data on my Macbook.
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http://www.circuitremix.com/index.php/osx/2006/11/25/comparison-of-file-systems-interfaces-and-oses-for-an-external-ide-hard-drive-enclosure/
ext4 is ready...
http://www.kr.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.19-rc1/2.6.19-rc1-mm1/announce.txt
First benchmarks of the ext4 file system
http://linux.inet.hr/first_benchmarks_of_the_ext4_file_system.html
Why so many filesystems for Linux? What?s the difference?
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| * EXT3
|
| * Most popular Linux file system, limited scalability in size and
| number of files
| * Journaled
| * POSIX extended access control
|
| EXT3
| file system is a journaled file system that has the greatest use in
| Linux today. It is the "Linux" File system. It is quite robust and
| quick, although it does not scale well to large volumes nor a great
| number of files. Recently a scalability feature was added called
| htrees, which significantly improved EXT3's scalability.
|
|
| [...]
|
| * FAT32
|
| * Most limited file system, but most ubiquitous
| * Not Journaled
| * No access controls
|
| FAT32
| is the crudest of the file systems listed. Its popularity is with its
| widespread use and popularity in the Windows desktop world and that it
| has made its way into being the file system in flash RAM devices
| (digital cameras, USB memory sticks, etc.). It has no built in security
| access control, so is small and works well in these portable and
| embedded applications. It scales the least of the file systems listed.
| Most systems have FAT32 compatibility support due to its ubiquity.
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http://kevin.hatfieldfamilysite.com/?p=104
Home page of Spad Filesystem for Linux
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| SpadFS is a new filesystem that I design and develop as my PhD thesis.
| It is an attempt to bring features of advanced filesystems (crashr
| ecovery, fast directories) and good performance without increasing
| code complexity too much.
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http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mikulas/spadfs/
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