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| 11 | <version>2.4</version> |
11 | <version>7.0</version> |
| 12 | <date>2006-06-20</date> |
12 | <date>2006-08-30</date> |
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| 14 | <section> |
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| 15 | <title>Introduction to Block Devices</title> |
15 | <title>Introduction to Block Devices</title> |
| 16 | <subsection> |
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| 17 | <title>Block Devices</title> |
17 | <title>Block Devices</title> |
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| 663 | <p> |
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| 664 | <b>ext3</b> is the journaled version of the ext2 filesystem, providing metadata |
664 | <b>ext3</b> is the journaled version of the ext2 filesystem, providing metadata |
| 665 | journaling for fast recovery in addition to other enhanced journaling modes like |
665 | journaling for fast recovery in addition to other enhanced journaling modes like |
| 666 | full data and ordered data journaling. ext3 is a very good and reliable |
666 | full data and ordered data journaling. ext3 is a very good and reliable |
| 667 | filesystem. It has an additional hashed b-tree indexing option that enables |
667 | filesystem. |
| 668 | high performance in almost all situations. You can enable this indexing by |
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| 669 | adding <c>-O dir_index</c> to the <c>mke2fs</c> command. In short, ext3 is an |
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| 670 | excellent filesystem. |
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| 671 | </p> |
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| 673 | <p> |
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| 674 | <b>ReiserFS</b> is a B*-tree based filesystem that has very good overall |
671 | <b>ReiserFS</b> is a B*-tree based filesystem that has very good overall |
| 675 | performance and greatly outperforms both ext2 and ext3 when dealing with small |
672 | performance and greatly outperforms both ext2 and ext3 when dealing with small |
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