The Linux Ninja

Jeff Layton from Linux Magazine just published “From ext3 to ext4: An Interview with Theodore Ts’o.” The interview goes over the design decisions of ext4, the progression from ext3 to ext4, discuss things like SSD optimization, and and Ted Ts’o even gives some performance tips in the last question of the interview. They do not touch on the recent ext4 delayed allocation bug or the recent kerfuffle on the kernel developers mailing list between Linus and Ted (one possibility for this may be that the interview was conducted before these events transpired). The interview isn’t too long, so go on over and give it a read.