Tuesday, 2 October 2012

Ext2 File System

  • Choose the block size (1024,2048,4096 byte)
  • Partition disk blocks into group (lower average disk seek time)
  • Preallocate disk data block to regular files.
  • Fast symbolic links
Ext3 File System
  • Ext3 is the new version of Ext2 and adds journaling mechanism, but the basic structures are the same
  • Addition of an online file system
  • File system journaling
Whitout this,the ext3 file system would be equivalent to ext2.
Ext3 has a maximum size for both individual files and the entire filesystem. For the filesystem as a whole that limit is 232 blocks. Both limits are dependent on the block size of the filesystem; the following chart summarizes the limits.


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