On Sunday 09 December 2007 21:39:45 Carlos E. R. wrote: > The Sunday 2007-12-09 at 19:03 +0100, Michael Skiba wrote: > >>> ext3 as well > >> > >> Not really. all drivers/apps for Windows only support ext3 because the > >> difference is mostly the journal. AFAIK, no driver/app supports the ext3 > >> journal, so in reality, they only support ext2. > > > > That's correct, however ext3 is backwards compatible, so you can read > > write an ext3 partition(it feels like an ext2 one), however - if you > > perform write tasks, then it will have to rebuild the journal on next > > "real" use of ext3 (probably when you start Linux again). > > Not quite... ext3 can use some attrributes and features that ext2 doesn't > understand. An ext3 filesystem making use of those can not be mounted as > ext2.
"Ext3 shares all disk implementation with the ext2 filesystem, and adds transactions capabilities to ext2. Journaling is done by the Journaling Block Device layer." This is from /usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt I think it was a design criterion of ext3, that it should be fully usable on an ext2 only system I believe they are departing from that in ext4, to be able to be usable at all on larger file systems Anders -- Madness takes its toll -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
