Please accept my sincere apologies. No insult was intended. The comment was made in jest, hence the smiley that you chose to ignore. Please be assured that, where you are concerned, I will not make the same mistake again.....................mikeb wrote:3200 posts...check them out...helped a few puppy users I believe.....
don't insult me again
mike
. Mike good to see your still battling for the right of the common man to be able to access free software without needing to take a sabbatical! Go for it!well in that case no apology needed......bit of a touchy subject crept in there and I was sent into traumatic shockThe comment was made in jest
.Pup 431, upup432, upup450, dpup, and others do support ext4 now, although there are still problems with frugal installations. Hopefully, all the problems will be taken care of since ext4 does have advantages.ecomoney wrote:By christ Ive missed this place!
. . . . Another thing it does is install by default on an ext4 filesystem, which I dont believe Puppy supports yet (but I have been out of the loop for a while). Apparently ext4 is great - fast and secure and resistant to corruption...perhaps it could be "backported"?
I was wondering too.......so from hereWhat advantages does ext4 bring over ext3?
Hmm interesting list....apparently ext4 was in the 2.6.19 kernel.Table 1. Current and upcoming features of ext4 that provide advantages over ext3
Feature Advantage
Larger file systems Ext3 tops out at 32 tebibyte (TiB) file systems and 2 TiB files, but practical limits may be lower than this depending on your architecture and system settings—perhaps as low as 2 TiB file systems and 16 gibibyte (GiB) files. Ext4, by contrast, permits file systems of up to 1024 pebibyte (PiB), or 1 exbibyte (EiB), and files of up to 16 TiB. This may not be important (yet!) for the average desktop computer or server, but it is important to users with large disk arrays.
Extents An extent is a way to improve the efficiency of on-disk file descriptors, reducing deletion times for large files, among other things.
Persistent preallocation If an application needs to allocate disk space before actually using it, most file systems do so by writing 0s to the not-yet-used disk space. Ext4 permits preallocation without doing this, which can improve the performance of some database and multimedia tools.
Delayed allocation Ext4 can delay allocating disk space until the last moment, which can improve performance.
More subdirectories If you've ever felt constrained by the fact that a directory can only hold 32,000 subdirectories in ext3, you'll be relieved to know that this limit has been eliminated in ext4.
Journal checksums Ext4 adds a checksum to the journal data, which improves reliability and performance.
Online defragmentation Although ext3 isn't prone to excessive fragmentation, files stored on it are likely to become at least a little fragmented. Ext4 adds support for online defragmentation, which should improve overall performance.
Undelete Although it hasn't been implemented yet, ext4 may support undelete, which, of course, is handy whenever somebody accidentally deletes a file.
Faster file system checks Ext4 adds data structures that permit fsck to skip unused parts of the disk in its checks, thus speeding up file system checks.
Nanosecond timestamps Most file systems, including ext3, include timestamp data that is accurate to a second. Ext4 extends the accuracy of this data to a nanosecond. Some sources also indicate that the ext4 timestamps support dates through April 25, 2514, versus January 18, 2038, for ext3.
Night. Sleep well.don't insult me again
I was born under a bridge in San Fransisco; am I not a troll?mikeb wrote:I thought the definition of a troll was someone or several people who went around winding up individuals with personal remarks.
