Among the various topics discussed during the ongoing conference in New York End User Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit will be held sessions of the two new file systems for GNU / Linux. Their broadcasters will be Ted Ts'o with the Linux Foundation, and Chris Mason from Oracle.

One of them is ext4, which is widely evolutionary improvement of the current ext3. ext4 is built with the same source code as ext3 and is compatible with it. Characterized by an increased performance and scalability. The second file Btrfs, which is a joint effort between Red Hat, HP, IBM and Oracle. Because it contains many new features and is devoid of restrictions to be ext4, is an independent, separate from the ext4 project. Btrfs offers pools disk surface, recursive snapshoty, namely the ability to create snapshots snapshots, rapid verification of the system files and playback of data, easily manage large pools of data, more security, scalability and fast incremental backups.

Ext4 file system is already available in the Linux kernel for some time as experimental, and slowly begins to be implemented. The test version btrfs may occur as early as the kernel 2.6.29. This system will soon be the default file system in many Linux distributions.

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