[gentoo-user] Re: Ext4 another thread

2009-01-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org writes: Depending on your usage you might see significant improvements or hardly any at all. Best way to know for sure is to try it out. Note however that on ext4 journal checksums are *on* by default (and off on ext3 iirc). So when you are comparing

[gentoo-user] Re: Ext4 another thread

2009-01-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@online.de writes: sense. The one that really brings something new to the Linux filesystem world will be btrfs. I've already tried some older versions of it and it looks very promising. Volumes, RAID, data integrity, etc, all integrated into the filesystem,

[gentoo-user] Re: Ext4 another thread

2009-01-30 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Harry Putnam wrote: I didn't want to derail the existing thread discussing ext4 with this angle ... I'm guessing there may be comments that will not be helpful to that OP. I'm wondering what people running ext4 are seeing in practice that makes it better than ext3 or reiserfs? Is it safer