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.

When the disk device is reported in the serial log, errors will be displayed from the Linux kernel module for the filesystem. Note each line where EXT4-fs or XFS is specified. For any other filesystem ...

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 ...

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.

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.