ext4 File System?

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friedsonjm
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ext4 File System?

#1 Post by friedsonjm »

Anyone thinking of implementing ext4 in Puppy? Some notes on ext4 follow:


From Wikipedia:

Large filesystem

The ext4 filesystem can support volumes with sizes up to 1 exbibyte (1024 pebibytes).

[edit] Extents

Extents are introduced to map a range of contiguous physical blocks into a single descriptor. A single extent can map up to 128MiB of contiguous space with a 4KiB block size.[6]

[edit] Backward compatibility

The ext4 filesystem is backward compatible with ext3, making it possible to mount an ext3 filesystem as ext4 (using the “ext4dev

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Re: ext4 File System?

#2 Post by HairyWill »

friedsonjm wrote:The ext4 filesystem can support volumes with sizes up to 1 exbibyte (1024 pebibytes).
Oh good, I've got a couple of those lying around, having to split them up into 32 terrabyte partitions was really starting to irritate me ;-)
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#3 Post by Flash »

Great, another new word to learn. I'm running out of memory. :lol:

Rather than use names I've never seen before, and mostly are beloved by salesmen because they are impressive, if inaccurate and misleading, why not just use the power of 2? An exbibyte is equal to 2 raised to the (what) power? :?

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