Google to switch to EXT4

Google is apparently in the process of migrating their current EXT2 file-systems over to the more current EXT4 file-system (Ubuntu 9.10 uses it by default) Phoronix reports This was brought up in a JFS benchmarking discussion. Google’s Michael Rubin shared that they chose EXT4 after benchmarking it as well as XFS and JFS (possibly with [...]

Distribution Release: VortexBox 1.0

Andrew Gillis has announced the release of VortexBox 1.0, a Fedora-based server distribution that turns an unused computer into a music server or jukebox: “VortexBox 1.0 released. After several months of hard work we have released VortexBox 1.0. It has many of the features requested by the community including: FLAC to Apple Lossless (m4a) mirroring through the [...]