[Ambassadors] Fedora 11 and Ext4: The Straight Bits

Jack Aboutboul jaa at redhat.com
Mon Jun 8 17:33:25 UTC 2009


Read the complete interview here: 
http://jaboutboul.blogspot.com/2009/06/fedora-11-and-ext4-straight-bits.html

Let's face it--We're addicted! To files that is. More importantly, we 
are addicted to the massively large and ever increasing storage devices 
upon which we store those files. Make no mistake though, like any 
addiction, storing content comes at a cost and usually those costs are 
paid at the filesystem level. We all want more space and we all want 
better performance when it comes to disk I/O and a junkie's wishlist 
never ends.

Fedora 11, when released tomorrow, will be the first distribution to 
boast the inclusion of ext4, the latest incarnation in the extended file 
system family, as default. Ext4 brings with it support for larger 
filesystems, larger single file size and many improvements in almost 
every imaginable facet. Join me for an interview with Eric Sandeen, 
renown file system hacker, Red Hat Engineer and Fedora Contributor as he 
takes on a little trip down Filesystem Alley and explains what 
filesystems are, where did they come from, why should we care and why 
they along with Fedora 11 are prepping to take over the WOOOOORLD!




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