Ext4



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Introduction

The ext4, or fourth extended filesystem is a journaling file system in development, designed as a backwards-compatible replacement of the ext3 filesystem.

Documents

• The new ext4 filesystem: current status and future plans (2007)
• Ext4: The Next Generation of Ext2/3 Filesystem (2007)
• IRON File Systems (2005)
• Ext4 block and inode allocator improvements (2008)
• Ext4 online defragmentation

Links

• Ext4 Development Wiki
• Ext4 Wikipedia