Dropbox has announced that starting on November 7th 2018, only the ext4 filesystem will be supported in Linux for synchronizing folders in the Dropbox desktop app. Those Linux users who have synch ...

Momentum. Prior to EXT4, in many distributions, EXT3 was the default file-system. It was mature and robust. At the same time, XFS often required a kernel compile, so it got less attention from end ...

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 also provides large file system support, improved resistance to fragmentation, higher performance and improved timestamps.

Activity in Linux file systems, BTRFS and ext4 August 10, 2009 by Doug Black This may not be news to the file system aware among you, but I’m part of the blissfully ignorant crowd that complains about ...

Linux continues to grow bigger and better. Here's what's new and notable in the 6.16 release, plus what you need to know about 6.17.

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.