Ext3 (English Wikipedia)

Oliver Diedrich (27 October 2008). "Tuning the Linux file system Ext3". We found heavily fragmented free areas on an intensively used IMAP server which stores all its emails in individual files – although more than 900 GB of the total disk space of 1.4 TB were still available

ibm.com

Daniel Robbins (2001-12-01). "Common threads: Advanced filesystem implementor's guide, Part 8". IBM developerWorks. Archived from the original on 2007-10-13.

kernelnewbies.org

Ext4 – Linux Kernel Newbies. Kernelnewbies.org (2011-05-19). Retrieved on 2013-06-22.

kolivas.org

ck.kolivas.org

Defrag written in shell. Ck.kolivas.org (2012-08-19). Retrieved on 2013-06-22.

launchpad.net

bazaar.launchpad.net

Defrag written in Python. Bazaar.launchpad.net. Retrieved on 2013-06-22.

linux.com

Smith, Roderick W. (2003-10-09). "Introduction to Linux filesystems and files". Linux.com. Archived from the original on August 30, 2011.
Clark, Libby (19 February 2015). "10 Highlights of Jon Corbet's Linux Kernel Report". Retrieved 2019-01-26.

linux.no

lxr.linux.no

Matthew Wilcox. "Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt". Linux kernel source documentation.

linuxgazette.net

Piszcz, Justin. "Benchmarking Filesystems Part II". Linux Gazette (122).

linuxtweaks.wordpress.com

Trageser, James (2010-04-23). "Which Linux filesystem to choose for your PC? Ext2, Ext3, Ext4, ReiserFS (Reiser3), Reiser4, XFS, Btrfs".

lkml.org

"Theodore Ts'o": Proposal and plan for ext2/3 future development work. LKML. Retrieved on 2013-06-22.
Theodore Ts'o (2008-08-01). "Re: reiser4 for 2.6.27-rc1". linux-kernel (Mailing list). Retrieved 2010-12-31.

lwn.net

Jonathan Corbet. "The Next3 filesystem". LWN.

madduck.net

XFS and zeroed files Archived 2008-04-30 at the Wayback Machine. Madduck.net (2008-07-11). Retrieved on 2013-06-22.

mail-archive.com

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marc.info

Stephen C. Tweedie (February 17, 1999). "Re: fsync on large files". Linux kernel mailing list.
Rob Radez (November 23, 2001). "2.4.15-final". Linux kernel mailing list.
Andreas Dilger. "Post to the ext3-users mailing list". ext3-users mailing list post.

mjmwired.net

I/O Barriers, as of kernel version 2.6.31. Mjmwired.net. Retrieved on 2013-06-22.

mysqlperformanceblog.com

Virtualization and IO Modes = Extra Complexity. Mysqlperformanceblog.com (2011-03-21). Retrieved on 2013-06-22.
SSD, XFS, LVM, fsync, write cache, barrier and lost transactions. Mysqlperformanceblog.com (2009-03-02). Retrieved on 2013-06-22.

reactos.org

"ReactOS 0.4.2 Released". reactos.org. Retrieved 17 August 2016.

redhat.com

access.redhat.com

"Chapter 6. The Ext4 File System Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6".
Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Chapter 20. Write Barriers

redhat.com

RE: searching for ext3 defrag/file move program. Redhat.com (2005-03-04). Retrieved on 2013-06-22.

sapienti-sat.org

batleth.sapienti-sat.org

Linux ext3 FAQ. Batleth.sapienti-sat.org. Retrieved on 2013-06-22.

sgi.com

oss.sgi.com

Re: write barrier over device mapper supported or not? Archived 2009-05-04 at the Wayback Machine. Oss.sgi.com. Retrieved on 2013-06-22.

sourceforge.net

ext2.sourceforge.net

Cao, Mingming. "Directory indexing". Features found in Linux 2.6. Archived from the original on 2019-07-18. Retrieved 2009-04-01.
Radez, Rob (2005). "Extents, Delayed Allocation". future of ext3. Archived from the original on 2008-07-08. Retrieved 2008-07-30.

e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net

Stephen C. Tweedie (May 1998). "Journaling the Linux ext2fs Filesystem" (PDF). Proceedings of the 4th Annual LinuxExpo, Durham, NC. Retrieved 2007-06-23.

sourceforge.net

e3compr – ext3 compression. Sourceforge.net. Retrieved on 2013-06-22.

tldp.org

5.10. Filesystems. Tldp.org (2002-11-09). Retrieved on 2013-06-22.

transmissionbt.com

trac.transmissionbt.com

"#849 closed Enhancement (fixed) - preallocation to prevent fragmentation". trac.transmissionbt.com. The default Ubuntu filesystem ("ext3") will fragment large (>1GB), slowly growing files (<1 MB/s)

ufsexplorer.com

UFS Explorer Standard Recovery version 4. Ufsexplorer.com. Retrieved on 2013-06-22.

vleu.net

Shake. Vleu.net. Retrieved on 2013-06-22.

web.archive.org

Ivers, Hans. "Filesystems (ext3, reiser, xfs, jfs) comparison on Debian Etch". Archived from the original on 2008-09-13. Retrieved 2010-11-03. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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Cao, Mingming. "Directory indexing". Features found in Linux 2.6. Archived from the original on 2019-07-18. Retrieved 2009-04-01.
Daniel Robbins (2001-12-01). "Common threads: Advanced filesystem implementor's guide, Part 8". IBM developerWorks. Archived from the original on 2007-10-13.
Radez, Rob (2005). "Extents, Delayed Allocation". future of ext3. Archived from the original on 2008-07-08. Retrieved 2008-07-30.
Robert Nichols (2007-04-03) Re: How many sub-directories ? Archived 2008-10-06 at the Wayback Machine linux.derkeiler.com
HOWTO recover deleted files on an ext3 file system Archived 2010-09-19 at the Wayback Machine. Xs4all.nl (2008-02-07). Retrieved on 2013-06-22.
Re: Frequent metadata corruption with ext3 + hard power-off Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine. Archives.free.net.ph. Retrieved on 2013-06-22.
Re: Frequent metadata corruption with ext3 + hard power-off Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine. Archives.free.net.ph. Retrieved on 2013-06-22.
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XFS and zeroed files Archived 2008-04-30 at the Wayback Machine. Madduck.net (2008-07-11). Retrieved on 2013-06-22.
Barrier Sync. forums.opensuse.org (March 2007)

xs4all.nl

HOWTO recover deleted files on an ext3 file system Archived 2010-09-19 at the Wayback Machine. Xs4all.nl (2008-02-07). Retrieved on 2013-06-22.