Momentum. Prior to EXT4, in many distributions, EXT3 was the default file-system. It was mature and robust. At the same time, XFS often required a kernel compile, so it got less attention from end ...

$ sudo file -sL /dev/sda1 /dev/sda1: Linux rev 1.0 ext4 file system data, ... Red Hat recommends deploying XFS as your local file system unless there are specific reasons to do otherwise.

The ext4 filesystem has been around for a while as experimental code in GNU/Linux distributions. Recently one distribution decided to make it the default for an install. So what does promises does ...

Well-known Linux kernel developer Ted Ts'o announced this week that he has joined Google, leaving behind his previous role as CTO of the Linux Foundation. Ts'o, an expert on filesystem development ...

Those Linux users who have synch on other filesystems such as XFS, ext2, ext3, ... only the ext4 file system will be supported in Linux for synchronizing folders in the Dropbox desktop app.

Open-source local file systems, such as Linux Ext4, XFS, and Btrfs, remain a critical component in the world of modern storage. For example, many recent distributed file systems, such as Google ...

A new Linux filesystem gets rid of the 256-petabyte limit, and adds a checksum feature for the journal. But developers want you to know that it's not yet ready for production sytems.

So far I have been able to create (or convert from ext3 or ext4) a btrfs filesystem, and I have been able to install both openSuSE 13.1 and Fedora 20 with btrfs as the root filesystem.

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 ...

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.