Will the Nexus ditch rfs?

[davey11]

I read somewhere (forget where) that Samsung will go with ext file system on this phone.

Can anyone confirm or deny this?

The 2 Samsung phones I have owned, and as I understand every other Samsung device, you had to change the filesystem to ext from rfs via a voodoo lagfix kernel to get decent performance. Will be glad if they do away with rfs from the get go.

 

[Premium1]

Most likely yes, I think the nexus s uses ext. I had a fascinate and the only thing ext did was bump up quadrant scores couldn't really tell a difference performance wise over rfs.

 

[daitsuwamono]

I read somewhere (forget where) that Samsung will go with ext file system on this phone.

Can anyone confirm or deny this?

The 2 Samsung phones I have owned, and as I understand every other Samsung device, you had to change the filesystem to ext from rfs via a voodoo lagfix kernel to get decent performance. Will be glad if they do away with rfs from the get go.

Galaxy Nexus is a pure Android phone using an unmodified kernel from Google. Samsung doesn't get to mess anything up with respect to the software, kernel included.

 

[TuxDotKing]

I don't think Samsung has used rfs on any of its newer devices. I know the GT10.1 doesn't, and I'd be surprised if the S2 series did.

Regardless, the GNex will use ext4 for a few reasons: one, it's Google's default Android filesystem (yes, the Nexus S had ext4 too), and I'm pretty sure that Honeycomb and above devices require ext4 simply because of the way they handle storage and mounting now.

 

[ragnarokx]

Not even sure Samsung uses RFS anymore, but even if they did, it is Samsung's proprietary filesystem so Google wouldn't use it.

 

[BrianDigital]

Its not in my nexus s

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[davey11]

Thanks guys. I thought Samsung slapped rfs onto all their phones. It's on my charge.
But with the nexus s not having it its for sure the GN won't. Was getting tired of hearing the voodoo lady.

Back to the waiting game ;-)

Sent from my SCH-I510

 

[kidserious]

The nexus s uses mtd (memory technology device) partition layout and yaffs2 partition format for all partitions except for movinand (data) which is ext4.

sent from your mom's bed

 

[qnet]

Ext4, that sounds familiar, isn't that a filesystem you can format Ubuntu in also? Android is a mobile Linux OS so, I'm assuming it is.

 

[TuxDotKing]

Yep. Pretty much all modern (GNU/)Linux operating systems use ext4 by default currently.

At least until btrfs goes stable!