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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:Time for a backup? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Dude, it's Google!

    They have like 50 backups of their own logos, all of them.

    You'r bits are safe, trust me.