New ext4 features
From Ext4
Multiblock Allocation
- Primary developer: Alex Tomas
- Status: Patches available
- Changes on-disk format: No
- Target Date: ?
- e2fsprogs changes: No
Delayed Allocation
- Primary developer: Alex Tomas
- Status: Patches available
- Changes on-disk format: No
- Target Date: ?
- e2fsprogs changes: No
Break 32000 subdirectory limit
- Primary developer: Andreas? Ted?
- Status: Patches available
- Changes on-disk format: Yes
- Target Date: ?
- e2fsprogs changes: Needed
nsec timestamps
- Primary developer: Andreas? Alex?
- Status: Patches available
- Change on-disk format: Yes
- Target Date: ?
- e2fsprogs changes: Needed
inode version on disk
- Primary developer: ?
- Status: Prototype available
- Change on-disk format: Yes
- Target Date: ?
- e2fsprogs changes: Needed
uninitialized groups
- Primary developer: ?
- Status: Prototype available
- Change on-disk format: Yes
- Target Date: ?
- e2fsprogs changes: Needed
journal checksumming
- Primary developer: Andreas?
- Status: Prototype available
- Change on-disk format: Yes
- Target Date: ?
- e2fsprogs changes: Needed
persistent preallocation
- Primary developer: Suparna?
- Status: In development
- Change on-disk format: Yes
- Target Date: ?
- e2fsprogs changes: Needed