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The extended file system, or ext, was implemented in April 1992 as the first file system created specifically for the Linux kernel. Although ext is not a specific file system name, it has been succeeded by ext2, ext3, and ext4.
ext4 (fourth extended filesystem) is a journaling file system for Linux, developed as the successor to ext3.. ext4 was initially a series of backward-compatible extensions to ext3, many of them originally developed by Cluster File Systems for the Lustre file system between 2003 and 2006, meant to extend storage limits and add other performance improvements. [4]
While storage devices usually have their size expressed in powers of 10 (for instance a 1 TB Solid State Drive will contain at least 1,000,000,000,000 (10 12, 1000 4) bytes), filesystem limits are invariably powers of 2, so usually expressed with IEC prefixes. For instance, a 1 TiB limit means 2 40, 1024 4 bytes. Approximations (rounding down ...
Disk Cloning Software Disk cloning capabilities of various software. Name Operating system User Interface Cloning features Operation model License
The direct benefit is in storing each range compactly as two numbers, instead of canonically storing every block number in the range. [1] Also, extent allocation results in less file fragmentation. Extent-based file systems can also eliminate most of the metadata overhead of large files that would traditionally be taken up by the block ...
XFS is a high-performance 64-bit journaling file system created by Silicon Graphics, Inc (SGI) in 1993. [7] It was the default file system in SGI's IRIX operating system starting with its version 5.3.
Allocate-on-flush (also called delayed allocation) is a file system feature implemented in HFS+, [1] XFS, Reiser4, ZFS, Btrfs, and ext4. [2] The feature also closely resembles an older technique that Berkeley's UFS called "block reallocation".
The XFS-style quota interface has been available in GFS2 since kernel 2.6.33; Caching ACLs have been available in GFS2 since 2.6.33; GFS2 supports the generation of "discard" requests for thin provisioning/SCSI TRIM requests; GFS2 supports I/O barriers (on by default, assuming underlying device supports it. Configurable from kernel 2.6.33 and up)