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Google Switching To EXT4 Filesystem

Posted by timothy on from the make-money-with-open-source dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Google is in the process of upgrading their existing EXT2 filesystem to the new and improved EXT4 filesystem. Google has benchmarked three different filesystems — XFS, EXT4 and JFS. In their benchmarking, EXT4 and XFS performed equally well. However, in view of the easier upgrade path from EXT2 to EXT4, Google has decided to go ahead with EXT4."

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  1. Re:Not A Nerd? by Iron+Condor · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Said a Google spokesperson: "JFS performed really well, XFS was superb, but EXT4 was the killer!""

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  2. Re:Well by Jaysyn · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Kill them with fire?

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