On File Systems    Sunday, November 30 2008 @ 10:48 AM EST Contributed by: sde Although the file system is one of the most important pieces of an operating system, we generally put little thought into them these days. Put bits in, pull bits out. It usually works well enough for desktop systems – until the power fails - but even that is usually pretty painless these days. On Linux, there are many contenders in the file system arena. ext2 had been the standard for many years, though around 2001 and onward a few other choices become mainstream. Without delving into too much history: journaling support was added to ext2 in the form of ext3, ReiserFS is released, SGI ported XFS, and IBM ported JFS in no specific order. For a few reasons, mostly political, ext3 becomes the de facto file system for Linux. Read more   [ Views: 1130 ]

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