Inode: A unique identifier used to store the metadata of a file or directory in a Linux file system. Not including file name: The inode stores information like ownership, permissions, file size, ...

Question, on a 2TB drive how much space is wasted by using normal amount of inodes instead of largefile or largefile4, I created my filesystems with normal but I only have files in the 100MB to 4GB ...

A new Linux filesystem gets rid of the 256-petabyte limit, and adds a checksum feature for the journal. But developers want you to know that it’s not yet ready for production sytems. Linux’s ext4 ...

large file support inode allocation using large virtual block groups via flex_bg delayed allocation large block (up to pagesize) support efficient new ordered mode in JBD2 and ext4 (avoid using buffer ...

The debate, centered on the necessity of unique inode identifiers for file archiving, has seen Torvalds and the Google developer Steven Rostedt engaged in heated discussion. Despite Rostedt’s ...

We now present our experience of incorporating range writes into a simulation we built of Linux ext2. Allocation in ext2 (and ext3) derives from classic FFS allocation [22] but has a number of nuances ...