When I started daily-driving Linux instead of Windows, it largely went off without a hitch, but some time after installation, ...

Yes, the ext4 issues on Ubuntu are Ubuntu-specific to a large degree, but I wouldn't say exclusively. I wouldn't run ext4 on a vanilla kernel, for example. FWIW, I've been running ext4 on my ...

Building on the discussion in the two previous sessions on untorn (or atomic) writes, for buffered I/O and for XFS using direct I/O, Ojaswin Mujoo remotely led a session on support for the feature on ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

At the 2017 Vault conference for Linux storage, Ted Ts'o and Abutalib Aghayev gave a talk on some work they have done to make the ext4 filesystem work better on shingled magnetic recording (SMR) ...

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 ...

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, ...