Guide to Different File Systems
From CLFS-HINTS
Folowing the instructions in the CLFS book, you will create a second extended, or Ext2, filesystem. While this is a very popular filesystem for Linux systems, it not by any stretch of the imagination the only one. There are many reasons to use filesystems other than Ext2. One reason is improved performance for different types and sizes of files. Here is an older, but brief article benchmarking the performance of various filesystems.
Here we provide a brief discussion of several filesystems used with Linux, but not all. A more detailed discussion of these as well as others is available from the Linux Documentation Project's Filesystems HOWTO.
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