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Heise Online; By Thorsten Leemhuis 		Mail this story
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The Ext4 file system leaves its main development phase and will soon be ripe for productive use. Major renovation work on the code for memory and disk management promises GPU speed increases and better scalability. Hundreds of new and revised drivers improve hardware compatibility significantly.

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Comments (3)

ColonelPanik ·
So has anyone touched this yet? How is it? Will this make our lives better?
Steven_Rosenber ·
Who doesn't love new filesystems?
herzeleid ·
I've been using reiserfs exclusively for some years, due to the stark performance differences between it and the other journalled filesystems. I look forward to putting ext4 through its paces. If it fixes the more egregious performance problems of ext3 I shall be quite pleased with it.

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