Google cares about speed. The only change from ext2 to ext3 was journaling. If they don't need journaling, then they should stick with ext2. Ext4 has performance gains over ext2/3. Makes sense to me.
-- Kyle Gonzales Sent from my mobile On Apr 2, 2011, at 3:44 PM, "William L. Thomson Jr." <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 2011-04-02 at 15:03 -0400, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > >>> Besides, I hadn't done my homework on that filesystem so I stuck with >>> the familiar ext3. I like to make educated choices, but sometimes >>> don't feel like educating myself. Filesystem specifications are >>> fairly dry reading. >> >> ext4 is rock solid, just as any ext file system has been in my >> experience. I am switching to it across the board as fast as I can. >> Though will take a while for production systems for obvious reasons :) > > FYI Google announced they were switching from ext2 to ext4 over a year > ago. Back in December said that Android 2.3 and onwards would also be > using ext4 :) > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext4 > > Guess Google had no confidence or faith in ext3, which seems a bit odd. > > -- > William L. Thomson Jr. > Obsidian-Studios, Inc. > http://www.obsidian-studios.com > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 > RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml > Unsubscribe [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
