ext4: The Fourth Extended Filesystem
The ext4 file system is to be the successor to the ext3 journaled file system and will be available as an optional file system in the next release of Ubuntu, Ubuntu 9.04.
The ext4 file system is now, as of December 25, 2008, released as stable and can be used as the dominant file system without fear of data lose…well, to be more clear I mean no more fear than any other “stable” file system.
Ext4 is capable of supporting hard drives up to 1 exabyte in size. To put that in terms you might understand more easily, that’s 1,073,741,824 gigabytes!
Also, new with ext4 is an increased maximum file size!
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Is it faster and ext3?
re: faster than ext3?
Thankfully, yes - if you RTFM you see some links to benchmark results