Ted Ts’o sent out the EXT4 updates today for Linux 6.11. He explained in that pull request:
“Many cleanups and bug fixes in ext4, especially for the fast commit feature. Also some performance improvements; in particular, improving IOPS and throughput on fast devices running Async Direct I/O by up to 20% by optimizing jbd2_transaction_committed().”
For those who still use it.
Ok I’m just giving it a hard time as I still use it for VMs
Well that’s the default for debian based systems. So a lot of us use it.
I still use it (Ext4) exclusively and its great. How can you have a hard time with Ext4? It’s the most proven and most polished FS. Its not like slowing down your system or being buggy or like that.
Same here. Ext4 is an excellent general purpose file systems and a sensible default. It lacks features that are useful, even critical, for some use cases which sometimes rules it out but it certainly isn’t obsolete.
It is slower than btrfs and lacks protection against corruption
What evidence supports your statement, given that it contradicts the overall results of tests conducted in the past year by both DJ Ware and Michael Larabel from Phoronix?
Btrfs snapshots made me stop using ext4 all together.