Merry Christmas from Linus!

**toupeiro** · December 25th, 2008

Originally Posted by albinootje

Can anyone give a good or interesting reason to play with ext4 apart for fun ?
I liked playing around with btrfs a while back, and with ZFS longer ago.
Was just glancing through this :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext4

What? Don't you have tons of 16TB files you've been dying to save to an EXT filesystem?!?

To the average user, they may see a bit of a performance increase with EXT4, but most people don't have a need, or ability to scale high enough that reap the rewards EXT4 brings in over EXT3.

**ubuntu27** · December 25th, 2008

Originally Posted by jimmy the saint

I am totally shocked!! I just wish I knew why. Perhaps a translation of the shocking part would enlighten me....

Originally Posted by ajcham

Please, tell us what is supposed to be so shocking.

LOL. You Guys..

Originally Posted by albinootje

The poster probably meant that the photo of Linus is very different (Smiling vs. serious).

Yes. that's right! That's what I meant.

Well, looks like I used the wrong word. It should not be "shocking", more like "funny" & "unexpected"

Anyway, albinootje does that photo really look like serious to you?
It looks to me as if Torvald is about to cry or simply annoyed.

Someone should change the photo of Torvalds, it looks ridiculous.

**jpmelos** · December 25th, 2008

Originally Posted by MasterNetra

Linus?? You mean Linux? Or is Linus some new distro?

You kidding. Right?

**albinootje** · December 25th, 2008

Originally Posted by ubuntu27

It looks to me as if Torvald is about to cry or simply annoyed.

Someone should change the photo of Torvalds, it looks ridiculous.

I think Linus is just frowning his forehead, or thinking about something difficult.
But I agree that there are a lot nicer photos from him, I prefer the photo on the english wikipedia page.

**Changturkey** · December 25th, 2008

Originally Posted by MasterNetra

Linus?? You mean Linux? Or is Linus some new distro?

*starts clapping*

**geogur** · December 26th, 2008

you missed the message here`s a toy if your bored play with it. this is how it was meant.every time he (linus) dose this the net and linux improve i am sure that we will benifit from this experement,

**Sealbhach** · December 26th, 2008

From my dank basement I say thank you and merry Christmas.

.

**smartboyathome** · December 26th, 2008

I am on the 2.6.28 kernel now, with Grub2 booting it. I'm backing up my laptop's hard drive on my new 640GB external hard drive and then will whipe it clean so it is formated to EXT4 and restore my backup. What fun.