SSD’s, Journaling, and noatime/relatime
On occasion, you will see the advice that the ext3 file system is not suitable for Solid State Disks (SSD’s) due to the extra writes caused by journaling — and so Linux users using SSD’s should use...
View ArticleChoosing a File System on Linux for Firebird
If I could choose one word to speak about Linux it would be "choice". After choosing the distribution, you have to choose the file system to store your data. Today, we have mainly the choice between...
View ArticleConvert ext2/3 to ext4
In this article I am going to show you how to migrate your ext2 or ext3 partition to ext4. I will use a Ubuntu machine as an example. I want to warn you that you could lose data by doing this so,...
View ArticleWhat's The Fastest Linux Filesystem On Cheap Flash Media?
Compact Flash and SD storage cards are everywhere; gigabytes for cheap in a tiny form factor. Most come formatted with VFAT. So what is the fastest Linux filesystem for these little devices?
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