ext3 and ext4 file systems have journaling. Is there any chance there's some API to get details or events about files? Some kind of API that will allow a user space program to access journal entrie...

I would like to simulate filesystem corruption for the purpose of testing how our embedded systems react to it and ultimately have them fail as gracefully as possible. We use different kinds of blo...

Where can I find the ext4 file system specifications? (Unofficial drafts are fine, so long as they're reasonably up-to-date; if unavailable, ext3 would be fine too.)

This is the ouput of the blktrace. I could not understand what is "N 0 (00 ..) [multipathd]". I'm testing the write IO performance of the FS. I have 2 doubts, N - is a action, but I dont find th...

I've run the following test I've created a folder containing 15'000 files of 400 bytes using this batch : @ECHO off SET times=15000 FOR /L %%i IN (1,1,%times%) DO ( fsutil file createnew f...

ext3 has 3 journaling options: journal, ordered, and writeback. According to the wikipedia entry, these range from least risky to most risky for crash recovery. For some reason, Android's version o...

How can I create a file in ext3 filesystem with a specific inode number? (ex: I want to create a file with inode-number = 12253)

How does the length of a filename affect remaining storage space on a disk? I realize this is filesystem dependent. In particular I am thinking about the EXT series of file systems. I don't fully ...