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Enterprise Networking Planet: Linux File Services: Good Things Arrive in Fours

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Carla Schroder
Jan 4, 2007

“Neither the ext4 filesystem nor Samba 4 are ready for
prime-time yet, but they are chock-full of promise and potential,
so let’s take a look at what they are promising to deliver.

“Linux supports all manner of file systems: ext2, ext3, JFS,
XFS, ReiserFS, NTFS, FAT12/16/32 and many more. Look in your
/boot/config-[kernel version] file under ‘File systems’ to see
what’s enabled in your kernel…”


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Carla Schroder

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