Is It Time to Migrate Your File Systems to Ext4?

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The Ext4 file system is a scalable extension of the Ext3 file system. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 provides full support for Ext4, and it is now the default file system for new installations. However, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 also continues to provide full support for Ext2 and Ext3 file systems. When migrating a system to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 from an earlier release, you can continue usi...

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