Google’s new Nexus S smartphone is the first Android device to use the Ext4 filesystem. The company published a statement on the official Android developer blog earlier this month to discuss how ...

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 ...

"If RHEL 6 has ext4 then I will be more inclined to recommend that my clients use it than Debian/Lenny. Filesystem performance is a significant problem for many servers that I run, and ext4 offers ...

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. Linux’s ext4 ...

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 ...

This tool provides a way to change the bytes-per-inode ratio of an existing ext4 filesystem, thus increasing or decreasing the inode count. Previously, this parameter was chosen at filesystem creation ...

When PVC is creates with ext4 as filesystem the available space is only 95% of the PVC size. Whereas with XFS 100% is available. (ignoring filesystem overhead) Issue is in mkfs.ext4 default options ...

Filesystems, like file cabinets or drawers, control how your operating system stores data. They also hold metadata like filetypes, what is attached to data, and who has access to that data. For ...