On Thu, 22 Nov 2001 10:53:42 -0500 Kurt Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Susan Macchia wrote: > > Ok - not to sound like to much of a nucklehead, but how do I find > out about > > this kind of fs? Is it easy to transition to? Are there SxS for > them? I have > > seen references to these things in this list, but haven't really > paid > > attention, so please forgive my ignorance here. > > The transition to ext3 is easy: "tune2fs -j /dev/foo/" adds > journalling to an ext2 FS, essentially making it and ext3 FS (of > course, you need a kernel that supports ext3, which recent 2.4 > kernels > do). > Reading the kernel change logs makes me think that 2.4.15-pre2 is the "minimum" level, but then I have been on a 2.4.13 kernel supplied by gentoo with lots of other patches, so they must have paid attention to ext3 as well. I've just cut over to 2.4.13-pre5 (because that's as far as gentoo has made it), but -pre9 is already available. pre5 has some bugs left in the agp-sis component (won't compile) which I no longer require but was still hanging around in my config. I guess I'm just old fashioned or chicken or I've learned a few things over the years, but I wouldn't apply tune2fs -j to my only running system on a bet! Old safe and secure here always clones his system to an empty partition, updates the fstab and lilo, and then plays to his heart's content on a system copy that he can break without too many tears. -- Collins Richey Denver Area gentoo_rc6 xfce+sylpheed _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
