EXT4 Is Working On A "Large Directory" Option, Parallel Discards

[phoronix]

Phoronix: EXT4 Is Working On A "Large Directory" Option, Parallel Discards

It's looking like the EXT4 file-system updates for the upcoming Linux 4.13 cycle could be a bit more interesting this time around...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=EXT4-Linux-4.13-Work

[M@GOid]

Modifications on stable file systems make people nervous man. I'm not excited by this, I'm nervous.

[DeepDayze]

Modifications on stable file systems make people nervous man. I'm not excited by this, I'm nervous.

Agreed...these changes need to be fully tested and debugged before being enabled by default. Perhaps through tune2fs these features can be enabled/disabled like the other filesystem features.

[starshipeleven]

Modifications on stable file systems make people nervous man. I'm not excited by this, I'm nervous.

If you use a stable distro with an LTS kernel you don't have anything to fear, people on Arch/Gentoo/whatever will slam their face on any bugs well before you.

[Jumbotron]

Is it just me or are the EXT4 guys trying to copy the XFS guys?

[M@GOid]

If you use a stable distro with an LTS kernel you don't have anything to fear, people on Arch/Gentoo/whatever will slam their face on any bugs well before you.

Thank you Arch/Gentoo/whatever people for slam your face with the bugs so the rest of us don't have to.

[cjcox]

Is it just me or are the EXT4 guys trying to copy the XFS guys?

Ext4 more or less == Red Hat and XFS nowadays more or less == Red Hat. Makes sense that there is quite a bit of sharing there. And since Red Hat took an extreme interest in XFS as their "enterprise" filesystem, it really makes sense.

[BaronHK]

If you use a stable distro with an LTS kernel you don't have anything to fear, people on Arch/Gentoo/whatever will slam their face on any bugs well before you.

This seems like precisely the thing that will find its way into Fedora and will be considered for backporting to RHEL+Clones like CentOS and Scientific Linux when it's been sufficiently tested. Fedora is a technology testbed. You always have the latest cool stuff, but sometimes it's not baked. Sometimes they put it in when it's obviously broken.

Fedora 9 was the first to ship with KDE 4. Almost nothing worked right. In fact, it took until KDE 4.4 to get it to where you could run KDE it as your daily driver without serious problems.

The current feature that's not really ready but Fedora uses it anyway is Wayland, but there's a Gnome on Xorg session, so I have continued using that. Wayland is making progress though. Maybe in Fedora 27, I can enable it by default, but the Xorg session has no reason to be removed anytime soon. You still need the whole Xorg stack to enable XWayland, so it would make no sense to yank it out yet.

[Vistaus]

If you use a stable distro with an LTS kernel you don't have anything to fear, people on Arch/Gentoo/whatever will slam their face on any bugs well before you.

And what about a rolling distro with an LTS kernel (Solus, which I'm using)? I'm just trying to point out that not all rolling distros use a non-LTS kernel.

[starshipeleven]

And what about a rolling distro with an LTS kernel (Solus, which I'm using)? I'm just trying to point out that not all rolling distros use a non-LTS kernel.

For "stable" I meant "focused on stability". Also Chakra is similar semi-rolling with a stable core.
Fedora isn't rolling but isn't for stability either.