On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Jonathan Sailor wrote:
JS> What exactly are ext3 and ResierFS anyways?
ext3 is a file system that builds on the long stability of the ext2 file
system which is what most Linux distributions used, and still use, up
until ReiserFS came along. ext2 is an improved version of the original ext
file system from the early Linux days. ext2 has been stable at least since
1995.
ext3 just add journaling to the ext2 file system and makes it possible to
later reverse to plain old ext2 without journaling.
ReiserFS is a totally written from scratch file system by Hans Reiser. It
was the first journaling file system for Linux.
Other new journaling file systems for Linux include JFS from IBM, and XFS
from Silicon Graphics.
If you need to know what a journaling file system is I suggest Google as I
don't want to go further into details here.
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