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FOSS Debates, Part 1: Kernel Truths
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| When Linux version 0.01 was first released more than 17 years ago, it
| included some 10,000 lines of code; last fall, the kernel surpassed 10
| million.
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| Though blank lines, comments and text files are included in that count, the
| kernel's size has been a source of growing concern among many observers, not
| a few of whom charge the kernel has become unwieldy and bloated.
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http://www.crmbuyer.com/story/must-read/66401.html
EXT4 is improving the Linux experience
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| In short, the ext4 filesystem made a DE outperform a WM, and that’s something
| special indeed. I’ve been using Linux for over 5 years now, and never before
| has a technology appeared which makes that much of a difference, speedwise.
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http://celettu.wordpress.com/2009/03/06/ext4-is-improving-the-linux-experience/
Recent:
Ext4
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| Ext4 is the evolution of the most used Linux filesystem, Ext3. In many ways,
| Ext4 is a deeper improvement over Ext3 than Ext3 was over Ext2. Ext3 was
| mostly about adding journaling to Ext2, but Ext4 modifies important data
| structures of the filesystem such as the ones destined to store the file
| data. The result is a filesystem with an improved design, better performance,
| reliability and features.
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http://kernelnewbies.org/Ext4
Fast ext4 fsck times, revisited
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| Last night I managed to finish up a rather satisfying improvement to ext4’s
| inode and block allocators. The ext4’s original allocator was actually a bit
| more simple-minded than ext3’s, in that it didn’t implement the Orlov
| algorithm to spread out top-level directories for better filesystem aging. It
| also was buggy in certain ways, where it would return ENOSPC even when there
| were still plenty of inodes in the file system.
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http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2009/02/26/fast-ext4-fsck-times-revisited/
Recent:
Anatomy of ext4
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| The fourth extended file system, or ext4, is the next generation of
| journaling file systems, retaining backward compatibility with the previous
| file system, ext3. Although ext4 is not currently the standard, it will be
| the next default file system for most Linux® distributions. Get to know ext4,
| and discover why it will be your new favorite file system.
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http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-anatomy-ext4/index.html
ext4: The Fourth Extended Filesystem
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| The ext4 file system is to be the successor to the ext3 journaled file system
| and will be available as an optional file system in the next release of
| Ubuntu, Ubuntu 9.04.
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| The ext4 file system is now, as of December 25, 2008, released as stable and
| can be used as the dominant file system without fear of data lose…well, to be
| more clear I mean no more fear than any other “stable” file system.
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http://kyleabaker.com/2009/02/06/ext4-the-fourth-extended-filesystem/
Initial ext3 vs ext4 Results
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| We’ve started to do some internal benchmarking of ext3 vs ext4 at
| myYearbook.com to see if what we’ve seen and heard about ext4 was really
| true. While the following benchmark is not in-depth, it does represent our
| initial findings, which match our anecdotal findings. If all of these
| findings hold true, we expect them to have a large impact on our PostgreSQL
| OLTP workload where machines are IO bound.
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http://gmrpgsql.tumblr.com/post/73798984/initial-ext3-vs-ext4-results
Ext4 Filesystem Explained in Plain English
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| If you need the advantages of Ext4, your existing Ext3 can be
| easily “upgraded” to Ext4 without the need to format. This means that all
| your data will stay intact once you upgrade (though I would highly recommend
| backing up).
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http://hehe2.net/linux-general/ext4-filesystem-explained-in-plain-english/
Ext4 to be standard for Fedora 11, Btrfs also included
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| According to current plans, version 11 of Fedora, which is expected to arrive
| in late May, will use Ext4 as its standard file system. That's what the
| Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) recently decided, following a
| heated discussion in an IRC meeting. If however Ext3's successor encounters
| big problems with the pre-release versions of Fedora 11, the developers will
| dump that plan and revert to Ext3.
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http://www.heise-online.co.uk/news/Ext4-to-be-standard-for-Fedora-11-Btrfs-also-included--/112467
Ubuntu 9.04 Receives EXT4 Support
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| With the EXT4 file-system having been stabilized with the Linux 2.6.28
| kernel, the Ubuntu developers are preparing to adopt this evolutionary Linux
| file-system update. EXT4 will not replace EXT3 as the default file-system
| until at least Ubuntu 9.10, but as of yesterday, Ubuntu 9.04 now has
| install-time support for EXT4. In this article we are looking at the EXT4
| support within Ubuntu as well as providing a few Linux file-system benchmarks
| from a netbook-embedded solid-state drive. In this article we have published
| Ubuntu benchmarks of EXT4, EXT3, XFS, JFS, and ReiserFS file-systems.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_ext4&num=1
Real World Benchmarks Of The EXT4 File-System
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| In Nexuiz, World of Padman, and Unreal Tournament 2004 to represent gaming on
| the Linux operating system, the results were virtually identical. To the
| Linux gamer, switching to EXT4 or XFS will not really mean much in the way of
| improved frame-rates. If though you deal with compressing files often, of the
| four file-systems tested, the best appears to be EXT4 or XFS. When it came to
| multimedia encoding, we cannot call a decisive winner. In our GnuPG
| encryption test, EXT3 was the fastest followed by XFS. However, in the Bork
| encryption test, EXT4 was the fastest followed by EXT3. EXT3 does still
| appear to have some advantages.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ext4_benchmarks&num=1
Kernel: Ext 4 Filesystem Moves Beyond Developer Status
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| Theodore Ts'o has renamed the Ext4 filesystem, for which he has been
| responsible for source and documentation, from extdev to ext4. Linus Torvalds
| has also incorporated the change into his personal source tree for the
| upcoming Kernel 2.6.28.
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| After the release of Kernel 2.6.27, a usual two-week merge window occurs when
| Torvalds merges the code for the next version into his personal kernel
| archive.
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http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/online/news/kernel_ext_4_filesystem_moves_beyond_developer_status
Ext4 is now the primary filesystem on my laptop
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| Over the weekend, I converted my laptop to use the ext4 filesystem. So far
| so good! So far I’ve found one bug as a result of my using ext4 in
| production (if delayed allocation is enabled, i_blocks doesn’t get updated
| until the block allocation takes place, so files can appear to have 0k
| blocksize right after they are created, which is confusing/unfortunate), but
| nothing super serious yet. I will be doing backups a bit more frequently
| until I’m absolutely sure things are rock solid, though!
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http://tytso.livejournal.com/57492.html
ext4 Implementation
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| One major feature present in Fedora 9 will be the ext4 implementation. The
| new filesystem will not be the default for the distro, but will be available
| for users and systems administrators to enable. New functionality includes
| larger capacities and online defragmentation, for better performance and more
| reliability. To find out more, we talked with Eric Sandeen, Fedora project
| member and filesystem developer at Red Hat.
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http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Interviews/EricSandeen
Related:
A better ext4 filesystem for Linux
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| A new Linux filesystem gets rid of the 256-petabyte limit, and adds a
| checksum feature for the journal. But developers want you to know that it's
| not yet ready for production sytems.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2008/012908-kernel.html
ext4 2.6.25 Merge Plans
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| "The following patches have been in the -mm tree for a while, and I plan to
| push them to Linus when the 2.6.25 merge window opens," began Theodore Ts'o,
| offering the patches for review before they are merged.
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http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Ext4_2.6.25_Merge_Plans
ZFS, XFS, EXT4 Filesystems Compared
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| EXT4 is fast for metadata operations, tar, untar, cpio, and postmark. EXT4 is
| much faster than the others under FFSB. EXT4 with hardware RAID and external
| journal device is ludicrously fast. EXT4 seems to have a bad interaction with
| software RAID, probably because mkfs fails to query the RAID layout when
| setting the filesystem parameters.
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| ZFS has excellent performance on metadata tests. ZFS has very bad sequential
| transfer with hardware RAID and appalling sequential transfer with software
| RAID. ZFS can copy the linux kernel source code in only 3 seconds! ZFS has
| equal latency for read and write requests under mixed loads, which is good.
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| XFS has good sequential transfer under Bonnie++. Oddly XFS has better
| sequential reads when using an external journal, which makes little sense. Is
| noatime broken on XFS? XFS is very slow on all the metadata tests. XFS takes
| the RAID layout into consideration and it performs well on randomio with
| hardware or software RAID.
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http://tastic.brillig.org/%7Ejwb/zfs-xfs-ext4.html
First benchmarks of the ext4 file system
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| The ext4 file system promises improved data integrity
| and performance, together with less limitations, and is
| definitely the step in the right way. Even if there are
| some regressions in our measurements, when compared to
| ext3, they're quite small and no doubt will be fixed
| before the development is finished. On the other hand,
| under some workloads ext4 is already showing much better
| results.
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http://linux.inet.hr/first_benchmarks_of_the_ext4_file_system.html
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