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| 11 | <version>7.0</version> |
11 | <version>7.1</version> |
| 12 | <date>2006-08-30</date> |
12 | <date>2006-11-02</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> |
16 | <subsection> |
| 17 | <title>Block Devices</title> |
17 | <title>Block Devices</title> |
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| 616 | happens to be in an inconsistent state. |
616 | happens to be in an inconsistent state. |
| 617 | </p> |
617 | </p> |
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| 619 | <p> |
619 | <p> |
| 620 | <b>ext3</b> is the journaled version of the ext2 filesystem, providing metadata |
620 | <b>ext3</b> is the journaled version of the ext2 filesystem, providing metadata |
| 621 | journaling for fast recovery in addition to other enhanced journaling modes like |
621 | journaling for fast recovery in addition to other enhanced journaling modes |
| 622 | full data and ordered data journaling. ext3 is a very good and reliable |
622 | like full data and ordered data journaling. It uses a hashed B*-tree index that |
| 623 | filesystem. |
623 | enables high performance in almost all situations. In short, ext3 is a very |
| 624 | </p> |
624 | good and reliable filesystem. |
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| 626 | <p> |
625 | </p> |
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627 | <p> |
| 627 | <b>ReiserFS</b> is a B*-tree based filesystem that has very good overall |
628 | <b>ReiserFS</b> is a B*-tree based filesystem that has very good overall |
| 628 | performance and greatly outperforms both ext2 and ext3 when dealing with small |
629 | performance and greatly outperforms both ext2 and ext3 when dealing with small |
| 629 | files (files less than 4k), often by a factor of 10x-15x. ReiserFS also scales |
630 | files (files less than 4k), often by a factor of 10x-15x. ReiserFS also scales |
| 630 | extremely well and has metadata journaling. As of kernel 2.4.18+, ReiserFS is |
631 | extremely well and has metadata journaling. ReiserFS is solid and usable as |
| 631 | solid and usable as both general-purpose filesystem and for extreme cases such |
632 | both general-purpose filesystem and for extreme cases such as the creation of |
| 632 | as the creation of large filesystems, the use of many small files, very large |
633 | large filesystems, very large files and directories containing tens of |
| 633 | files and directories containing tens of thousands of files. |
634 | thousands of small files. |
| 634 | </p> |
635 | </p> |
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| 636 | <p> |
637 | <p> |
| 637 | <b>XFS</b> is a filesystem with metadata journaling that is fully supported |
638 | <b>XFS</b> is a filesystem with metadata journaling that is fully supported |
| 638 | under Gentoo Linux's xfs-sources kernel. It comes with a robust feature-set and |
639 | under Gentoo Linux's xfs-sources kernel. It comes with a robust feature-set and |
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