Current state of ext4 development in Fedora

[Marcos Ortiz]

No, the both mailing list for Brtfs and ext4 (linux-brtfs, linux-ext4 
@vger.kernel.org) are very active,
so I don´t think that the development will stop.

I only ask because I´m very interested on the integration of Fedora 17 
with ext4. There are many good points on the discussions on both lists, 
for example the file compression in ext4 level, online defrag, etc; so, 
if Fedora always will use the last kernel available, I want to test 
these features on the distribution.

Regards

On 03/06/2012 08:56 PM, David Quigley wrote:
> On 03/06/2012 20:53, Tom Horsley wrote:
>> On Tue, 06 Mar 2012 20:20:16 -0500
>> Marcos Ortiz wrote:
>>
>>> Regard to all the list.
>>> Where is the current state of the development of ext4 in Fedora 17?
>>> Best wishes
>>
>> Well, since btrfs is now the newest fad, I suspect there
>> will be no new ext4 development at all (but as was mentioned
>> in another reply, ext4 no longer has any grub compatibility
>> problems, with grub2 at least).
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by ext4 development but I would be really 
> surprised if the kernel community stopped maintaining ext4 and the 
> utilities for it. BTRFS still needs a fsck that can fix up the 
> filesystem. Until that happens you're still going to be seeing ext4 as 
> the main filesystem. I know there is a feature to move to a BTRFS 
> default install FS but I still haven't heard word about the fsck 
> utility yet.

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