Understanding ext4 filesystem
- Supports max volume (it's partition to those windows geeks) of 1 Exbibytes.
- Supports max file size of 16 Tebibytes.
- Reduced file fragmentation.
- Better large file performance.
- Backward compatibility that enables ext2 and ext3 file system to be mounted as ext4 file system.
- Supports max of 64,000 subdirectories that a directory can contain. (ext3 can supports up to 32,000)
- Online defragmentation possible in future.
- Faster file system checking.
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