Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 1 Jul 2006 19:07:30 +0200 | From | Tomasz Torcz <> | Subject | Re: ext4 features |
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On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 06:33:01PM +0200, Thomas Glanzmann wrote: > Hello, > 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? > > What I personally would like to see most in ext4 are > > * checksums for data
Checksums are not very useful for themselves. They are useful when we have other copy of data (think raid mirroring) so data can be reconstructed from working copy.
> * and snapshots on filesystem basis
What's wrong with DM snapshots?
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