[ubuntu-uk] EXT3 or EXT4

[Rob Beard]

  On 16/07/2010 21:31, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
> On Friday 16 July 2010 21:18:47 Rob Beard wrote:
>> Is the Extents where it allocates space for big files?  (I found
>> something about this when googling about EXT4).
> Extents are a method of pre-allocating space to avoid fragmentation. ext4 will
> be faster for copying large files.
>
> Regards,
> Tyler
Well I went ahead with EXT4 and you're right, it is much quicker at 
copying the files back over.

Rob