While exploring improvements around different file system journaling mechanisms and settings in ext4, the engineers found suggestions about the XFS file system offering more advanced journaling ...

KAL publishes open source implementation of XFS4IoT, the revolutionary XFS version 4 global standard with the potential to transform the ATM world.

Those Linux users who have synch on other file systems such as XFS, ext2, ext3, ZFS, and many others will no longer have working Dropbox synchronization after this date.

Approximately 1,140,000 lines of code were added into this version, according to Linux Weekly News. In regard to the ext4 file system, the file system will no longer use a buffer layer to communicate.

XFS is an extremely scalable parallel file system developed by Silicon Graphics (SGI) which can scale to billions of files. It works with SGI’s IRIX 5.3 onwards and has been ported to various ...

The ext4 file system is the 4th generation ext file system. The first, ext, was implemented in April 1992 and was the first file system created specifically for the Linux kernel.

XFS's failure modes on less-than-perfectly-reliable systems are a lot more annoying and visible than those on ext [34]. When a machine goes down hard, XFS is apt to leave you with a bunch of files ...

Still, I'm confident that SGI knows what they're doing ;.).<P>Especially if you have a tendency to break stuff you'd love a journaling file system (XFS, ReiserFS, ext3 or JFS) -- no fsck when your ...

People using Oracle's XFS file system will be pleased that you can now repair corrupted files without unmounting your XFS drives. Moving to networking, there are a host of minor improvements.