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corruption with the implementation of an “atomic” file system where I/O is
guaranteed, to complete a 2x to 5x speed improvement by implementing new
access algorithms, and to ease third-party upgrades without reformatting,
through the use of plug-ins.
Other journaling file systems
Here is a sample of current file systems and their features for the Linux Kernel
2.6:
Ext3 is based on incremental modifications to the Linux standard ext2 file
system.
ReiserFS is designed and implemented as a journaling file system from the
beginning by Hans Reiser.
JFS was first designed by IBM for OS/2® WARP® ...