Give XFS a chance. Don't believe the FUD.

After tinkering with Ext4 I did some research and tested other file systems on my new disk arrays. I’ve concluded that XFS, once tuned, is the best file system for my needs and it could well be the best file system for your needs too. I’m now using XFS for all my computers, including laptop [...]

Posted on February 12, 2010 at 1:14 pm by Martin · Permalink · 2 Comments
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Recovering reserved space from ext4

The Ext4 file system, like Ext3, reserves 5% of the blocks on the file system for the root user. The reserved blocks are there for root’s use as a safe guard if the filesystem gets full, it provides some wiggle room to enable the really important programs to still function. But in some cases there’s [...]

Posted on January 7, 2010 at 8:42 pm by Martin · Permalink · 2 Comments
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