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News: The Performance Of EXT4 Then & Now

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http://www.raiden.net – Over the past week there has been a lot of talk about the EXT4 file-system following the announcement that Google is migrating their EXT' file-systems to EXT4. Their reasons for this transition to EXT4 are attributed to the easy migration process and Google engineers are pleased with this file-syste ... (Distributions)

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