Why ext4?
Why ext4?
Posted Oct 8, 2020 20:23 UTC (Thu) by Yenya (subscriber, #52846)In reply to: Why ext4? by sfeam
Parent article: The ABI status of filesystem formats
Well, a read-only by-design filesystem would not need a bitmap of free blocks and free inodes. And being able to make the r/only filesystem smaller for the same amount of data makes sense, unlike that abuse of ext4.