Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (464 mails)

[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Basil Chupin wrote:

> Per Jessen wrote:
> [snip]
> > Besides, I doubt if ext4 will never make into openSUSE:
> >
> > - lack of customer requests.
> >
> > - doesn't really meet any needs that cannot be handled by other
> >  Â file systems in the distro
> >
> > - Novell QA is not testing ext4 nor are any of Novells partners.
> >
> > - If you run into a problem with ext4, there is no support available
> >   from the openSUSE kernel maintainers.
> >   
>
> Oy! Where did you learn how to be sarcastic, eh? :-D

Hi Basil 

it wasn't really meant as sarcasm, I just couldn't help it.

Still, I'm curious - what do you see in ext4?  As in - what will it
bring that is really missed in filesystems today?  The max filesize
(1024 Petabytes I think it is) - it'll be a while before I foresee any
serious demand, even with harddisk sizes growing exponentially.  JFS is
maxed out at 32 Petabytes today - for my own professional needs, that's
unlikely to ever become a real show-stopper :-)

Whilst on the subject of filesystems, I'd much rather see Suns ZFS in
openSUSE, but I've been told there's some sort of licensing issue?



/Per Jessen, Zürich

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