Ted Ts’o: EXT4 Within Striking Distance Of XFS

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There’s just two months to go until the annual Linux.Conf.Au conference, which in 2011 is taking place in Brisbane, Australia. Ted Ts’o, the maintainer of the EXT4, will be speaking at the 2011 Linux.Conf.Au and he’s just shared his “money shot” from his presentation about this evolutionary file-system building atop EXT2/EXT3. New benchmarking results from HP’s Eric Whitney on a large multi-core system indicate that “[EXT4 is] now within striking distance of XFS.”..

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