On Thu, 19 Apr 2018 16:55:59 +0000 (UTC) Michael Stowe <michael.st...@member.mensa.org> wrote:
> While there's nothing inherently wrong with selecting an older > filesystem, ext4's design decision of backward compatibility has > essentially set some of its limitations in stone. (Your article below > elaborates on this point; it's not a next generation filesystem, it's > just something that works.) IIRC, EXT4 was launched almost only to counter ReiserFS that was raising hard at this time and had the favour of people, opposing to what kernel people were thinking was the best for others (as you see, development democrature isn't really new and take it's roots at the source;) Jean-Yves ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
