Linked by Rahul on Thu 22nd Jan 2009 18:33 UTC
The latest Fedora development snapshot makes Ext4 the default file system and adds experimental support for the next generation btrfs filesystem. "According to current plans, version 11 of Fedora, which is expected to arrive in late May, will use Ext4 as its standard file system. That's what the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) recently decided, following a heated discussion in an IRC meeting. If however Ext3's successor encounters big problems with the pre-release versions of Fedora 11, the developers will dump that plan and revert to Ext3."
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In addition to what the others said already, I'll give you a simple example. Do this test. Pick a file that is larger than 4 GB. Copy the file in a fat32 partition. Check the size of the file after copying it in the fat32 partition. Is it the same?
Except you can't copy a >4gb file on fat32 partition. But yes, large files do take more space on fat32 and ntfs partitions than on ext3. Not by much, though.
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2008-04-18
why should I care what file system my computer uses? what difference does EXT4/EXT3/Fat32/ntfs really make.
As an end-user will it really matter?
In addition to what the others said already, I'll give you a simple example. Do this test. Pick a file that is larger than 4 GB. Copy the file in a fat32 partition. Check the size of the file after copying it in the fat32 partition. Is it the same?