On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 03:38:51PM +0200, Gregoire Favre wrote:
>
> Is ext3 so good?
Uhm, yeah! :-)
> I have installed it on the root of my box, but found a
> very annoying things: after 20 mounts (no: I haven't changed the
> defaults...) the filesystem got checked (8 Gb with 7 Gb on it):
You mean while the box was running? What do you mean by "checked"?
fsck? How do you know it was being checked? I have been using ext3
on 2.2 kernels for nearly a year now and not encountered anything like
that.
You sure somebody or something did not fire off an fsck?
> The only advantage of ext3 I could see is that you could convert an ext2
> to ext3 without reformating, but that's not that much...
Not much? So what shall I do with my 40GB of data while I am
reformatting filesystems just to get journalling? Why would I not
prefer to just add a journal to existing filesystems?
I won't even go into the argument of the "tried and _very_ tested"
ext2 codebase vs. the "new and untested" (as much anyway) codebase of
reiserfs. But let's not start a religeous war OK?
b.
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Brian J. Murrell
