So a couple people (drag, I think?) labeled XFS as particularly "robust" and fast and, presumably, awesome. OK. This is not an argument, this is a question: if it's more robust than ext4, why are we ...

"I have great confidence in the ability of the ext3/4 developers and Red Hat employees to determine when a filesystem is ready for release. I'll do more testing with Fedora 11 than I otherwise would ...

If you've been running Linux for a while, you're probably using the now slightly-outdated EXT2 or EXT3 file system. Technology blog Ghacks has a guide to converting those formats to the newer, faster, ...

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Linux is the most flexible and customizable operating system on the planet. That customizability starts deep within the heart of the Linux kernel and the file system. A computer file system is a ...

More and more articles have been appearing on the EXT4 filesystem. In fact, the article that really caught my eye was one recently regarding the speed of using EXT4 on flash media. The benchmarks ...

Ext4, the next generation of Linux’s Ext3 filesystem, is now available in the latest Ubuntu 9.04 installer images. Ext4 was officially declared stable in version 2.6.28 of the Linux kernel, which was ...

A couple of weeks ago my curiosity turned a light working weekend into a full on charge in exploring the ins and outs of NAS server file systems. While testing the Crucial RealSSD C300, we moved away ...

Almost every bit of data needed to boot and run a Linux system is stored in a filesystem. Learn more about some commonly used Linux filesystem types. Linux supports quite a few filesystem types. Your ...

The default file system in Windows is NTFS, and the default file system in Ubuntu Linux is EXT4. The purpose of today’s 30 Days With Ubuntu Linux post is to try and understand what the difference is, ...

Windows 10 now allows you to mount physical disks formatted using the Linux ext4 filesystem in the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2. Linux filesystems, such as ext4, cannot be natively accessed in ...