Re: ext4 features

From: Bill Davidsen
Date: Wed Jul 05 2006 - 08:19:59 EST


Theodore Tso wrote:
On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 06:33:01PM +0200, Thomas Glanzmann wrote:
I would like to know which new features are planed to be incorported by
ext4. So far I only read about supporting bigger filesystems to fit
recent hardware developments. So are there any other big goals for ext4?

Some of the ideas which have been tossed about include:

* nanosecond timestamps, and support for time beyond the 2038

The 2nd one is probably more urgent than the first. I can see a general benefit from timestamp in ms, beyond that seems to be a specialty requirement best provided at the application level rather than the bits of a trillion inodes which need no such thing.

One argument against it is that with SMP with *almost* the same time in each CPU, cache everywhere in the i/o process, and various flavors of network filesystems, the atime/mtime become less and less useful for determining with great precision which file is most recently modified or accessed.

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