On Sat, 27 Oct 2001 at 18:37, Percy wrote: > that sounds good! if upgrading from ext2 to ext3 is "almost" painless, > i'll do it to my machine - perhaps a good step, before adapting > reiserfs technology.
It's not almost painless. It is painless. From ext2 to ext3 and back. Or so those who use ext3 say. And no, it's not a "good step" before adapting ReiserFS (or XFS or JFS) because it has nothing to do with them. It's not like practicing for a competition or something like that. The only relationship between ext3 and the other journalling filesystems is that it's a journalling filesystem. Other than that the four existing journalling filesystems for Linux are very distinct from each other. What's more, ext3 nondestructively converts an ext2 filesystem. The other three need you to shuffle data around. So migrating to ReiserFS was practice for me, and migrating to XFS (from either ReiserFS or ext2) was easier because it was the same shuffling procedure. And for those willing, XFS is very stable. Sure, it's not in the mainstream Linux kernel. But even the mainstream Linux kernel isn't stable, so this is a non-issue. I've been on the XFS mailing list since I jumped wagon from ReiserFS, and I've seen it implemented on a wide variety of IO-intensive and IO-dependent storage systems. And of course with XFS there are goodies like journalled quotas and ACLs. :) BTW, slides for my Linux10 talk on journalling filesystems for Linux, while not 100% accurate, might help you a bit. <http://jijo.leathercollection.ph/linux10/filesystems/>. > oh well, still need to research on kernel 2.4.13-RH 7.2 combo! AFAIK stock kernels don't have ext3. Maybe AC's have it in. The only journalling filesystem in the mainstream Linux kernel is ReiserFS. To go XFS, ext3, or JFS, you need to patch. Or you get a patched kernel like the one Mandrake has. Such an awesome package, I think, having all those in. Kudos to the Mandrake kernel packaging team. --> Jijo -- Federico Sevilla III :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Administrator :: The Leather Collection, Inc. GnuPG Key: <http://jijo.leathercollection.ph/jijo.gpg> _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
