What are the differences between ext3 and ext4?
Ext3
Journaling: Yes
Creation timestamps: No
Max file size: 16 GB – 2 TB
Max Volume size: 256 TB
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Archives for March 2011
File systems part I – NTFS and FAT32
I collected some facts and specs about windows filesystems. About their limits and security.
Mac-OS has still some problems with writing on NTFS partitions. If you work on windows and MAC you should use FAT-32.
Some answer are given below. [Read more…]
Monetary system
“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.”
– Henry Ford
Apache 2.4 overview
Good news from apache – Many new features and enhancements has been integrated in the development version of the next Apache.
By the way on my birhday on 7th of march was apache 2.3.11-beta released, With nice features:)
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RAID 6
A RAID 6 is another form of parity protection for disks. Called dual parity too.
Requirements: 4 Disks
Capacity: (Size of Smallest Drive) * (Number of Drives – 2)
Read: Very good read performance
Write: Poor write performance due to dual parity overhead and complexity
For this RAID level you should use a hardware controller.