The most visible and useful advantage of ext3 over ext2 is that ext3 is a journalling file system. This roughly means that the file system first first makes an entry to a journal (yeah just like the account journals) and then process them to read or write on the disk, this makes the chances of file system corruption remote and fsck after a improper shutdown is done very fast as the program just check the journal for the unprocessed entries and not the entire file system like ext2. Well ext2 is advantageous in the way that it has been there for a long time where as ext3 is a relatively new technology thus ext2 can be considered more robust. In some cases as per the use of system, Reiser FS has advantages over both ext2 and ext3 eg - a database server (since it handeles small files faster than both ext2 and ext3).
Ankur Agarwal >From: Prasad Bijur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [LIH] How good is ext3? >Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 23:20:05 -0800 (PST) > >Hi, > >I want to know the advantages and disadvantages of >ext3 over ext2. Can someone throw light? > >Regards, >Prasad > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games >http://sports.yahoo.com > >_______________________________________________ >linux-india-help mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
