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Kernel Space: Two New Filesystems for Linux

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Jonathan Corbet
Jun 27, 2007

“Almost exactly one year ago, as the developers were discussing
changes to the venerable ext3 filesystem, Andrew Morton was heard
to say:

“All that being said, Linux’s filesystems are looking
increasingly crufty and we are getting to the time where we would
benefit from a greenfield start-a-new-one. That new one might even
be based on reiser4–has anyone looked? It’s been sitting around
for a couple of years…”

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Jonathan Corbet

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