linux

Objectives

• Describe the XFS filesystem
• Manage a XFS filesystem
• Describe the BTR filesystem

XFS

Its a filesystem with better features compared to the ext4 filesystem, among them 

• Maximum filesystem size 16 EB (Exa Bytes)
• Maximum file size 8 EB (Exa Bytes)
• DMA (Direct Memory Access)
• Journal quota information
• Supor extended attributes

XFS Filesystem Maintenance

The mains maintenance task that can be performed on a XFS filesystem are :

Objectives

• Describe the main features of the Ext4 filesystem
• Explain the concepts of block groups, superblock, data blocks and inodes
• Use dumpe2fs and tune2fs
• List Ext4 enhacements

Ext2 

First Linux filesystem

Ext3 

Its similar to Ext2 filesystem however it does includes journaling

Ext4

Its similar to Ext3 but it uses extends instead of blocks collections in order to deal with large files