Theodore Ts’o 8/9/2008

Fast ext4 fsck times

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The article details a performance comparison between ext4 and ext3 filesystems, specifically focusing on the speed of the filesystem check utility (e2fsck). It reports that ext4 demonstrates dramatically faster fsck times—up to seven times faster than ext3 in the author's real-world laptop tests, confirming earlier synthetic benchmark results.

Fast ext4 fsck times

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