The Journey from ext2 to ext4 The extended family of file systems transitioned from ext2 to ext3, introducing journaling features, and eventually culminated in the development of ext4, which brought ...

If you've been running Linux for a while, you're probably using the now slightly-outdated EXT2 or EXT3 file system. Technology blog Ghacks has a guide to converting those formats to the newer ...

According to the newest benchmarks provided by Linux-focused web site Phoronix, the EXT4 filesystem for Linux has gained some improvements as far as d ...

The Extended File System The Extended File System is actually a family that currently includes ext2, ext3, and ext4. It was the de facto standard for many years and it is still commonly used.

Compared to the original Ext filesystem, Ext2 offered improved performance, and was the default for most Linux installs at least until the introduction of Ext3 in 1999.

Linux systems use a number of file system types – such as Ext, Ext2, Ext3, Ext4, JFS, XFS, ZFS, XFS, ReiserFS and btrfs. Fortunately, there are a number of commands that can look at your file ...

Ext4 was ultimately chosen over XFS because it would allow Google to do a live in-place upgrade of its existing Ext2 filesystems.