[Ambassadors] Fedora 11 and Ext4: The Straight Bits

[Hector Alfonso Gonzalez Ramirez]

Thanks for posting! By the way i "tipped off" engadget and several other
blogs about tomorrow´s realease, lets hope they listen!!

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 5:46 PM, David Ramsey <diamond_ramsey at hotmail.com>wrote:

>  > Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 13:33:25 -0400
> > From: jaa at redhat.com
> > To: fedora-marketing-list at redhat.com; fedora-ambassadors-list at redhat.com;
> fedora-list at redhat.com
> > CC:
> > Subject: [Ambassadors] Fedora 11 and Ext4: The Straight Bits
>
> Hello Everyone,
>
> > Read the complete interview here:
> >
> http://jaboutboul.blogspot.com/2009/06/fedora-11-and-ext4-straight-bits.html
>
> Great reading of the interview indeed, thank you for posting Jack!  :)
>
> > 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!
>
> Is question 4, correct?  :)
>
> I like question 5's answer I am trying to get a better understanding of
> ext4.  May be we will find out that the new Google Data Center's file
> systems will be employing ext4...  ;)
>
> I like question 7's answer, too and as an adventurous user, I will try out
> the BtrFS on one of my test systems after the Fedora 11 release.  :)
>
> Please have a great day!  :~)
>
> Thank You
> Sincerely
> =-=-=-=-=
> - David -
> =-=-=-=-=
> David Ramsey
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