Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> On 05/30 04:12 , Michael Stowe wrote:
>> It's generally slower, so I'm going to go with "no" on this one.
>
>>From the tests I've seen, ext2 is notably faster than ext3. Not doing
> journaling does make a difference.
>
> If you wanted to speed up ext3; you can put the journal on a separate device
> (even an SSD). This may make a measurable difference; but I haven't tried it
> myself.
The killer with ext2 is that if you crash you have to do a complete fsck before
coming back up which will take hours on a large backuppc filesystem. With ext3
normally the journal takes care of this.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikes...@gmail.com
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