| name | follows | bad blocks | directory contents | file allocation | partition identifier | Allowed characters in filenames | Attributes | Website | Data deduplication | Date range | date recorded | date released | File system permissions | Forks | Operating system | Max file size | Max filename length | Max number of files | Max volume size | time resolution (ns) | Transparent compression | Transparent encryption |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ext3 | Ext2 | Table | Tree | Bitmap | All bytes except NUL (''\0'') and ''/'' | allow-undelete, append-only, h-tree (directory), immutable, journal, no-atime, no-dump, secure-delete, synchronous-write, top (directory) | website | 14/12/1901 - 18/01/2038 | 11/2001 | Yes | Linux kernel | 16[GiB] | 255 | 4[TIB] | 1,000,000,000 |