Basic comparison between ext4 vs ext3 vs NTFS, it will show the benefits of using ext4 file system, all of them supporting journaling file system will talk more about journaling.
| ext3 | ext4 | NTFS | |
| Stand for | Third extended file system | Fourth extended file system | New Technology File System |
| Original OS | Linux | Linux | Microsoft |
| Max Volume size | 32 TB | 1 EB limited to 16 TB | 16 EB “16 TB – 4 KB with various operating system implementations.” |
| Max file size | 16 GB – 2 TB | 16 TB | 16 EB |
| Max filename length | 254 bytes | 256 bytes | 255 UTF-16 code units |
| Journaling | Yes | Yes | Yes |
ext3
Introduced the stable release 2001 supporting journaling and that help with speed transferring and there are three levels of journaling for ext3 ” lowest, medium, highest ” risk check Here more information about journaling levels. also supporting compression. check wikipedia ext3.
ext4
With the stable release of ext4 in 2008, this become one of the best file system out there, Transferring speed is really good, but it’s not depending on the file system itself only also hardware specifications, operating system, Kernel and many more dependencies. check wikipedia ext4.
NTFS
usually we don’t use ” NTFS ” file system on linux machine but, just in case your doing dual booting with other operating system support NTFS. and fully working on linux using NTFS-3g. check full features wikipedia NTFS.
Also check those for more informations:
- Full comparison of file systems Here
- File system configurations Here
- Speed test comparison for file system on linux 2.4.5 Here
That’s it for Now
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NTFS max file size is 16 ExaByte but the maximum volume size is 256 TeraByte?
That is just plain stupid, that actually means that the maximum file size is a lot smaller just microsoft were stupid enough to not limit it.
Not exactly, yes the maximum file size for NTFS is 16 EB [16 × 1024^6 bytes]
but as implemented nowadays the max file size is 16 TB [16 × 1024^4 bytes]
thanks for your comment.
Your stats are way wrong. For example, a default (4k=KiB block) EXT3 filesystem can hold a max filesize of 2 TiB.
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