<quote who="Bill Taylor">
> RH 7.1 uses ext2; 7.2 offers ext3 as default. Does anyone have opinions
> or preferences?
ext3 by a long shot; by default, it uses ordered writes (a kind of
journalling), so your data is safer, and you don't have to wait through
laborious fscks when you start up. You can also turn on full data
journalling, which, whilst slower, is safer again (it's also oddly faster
for some kinds of operations).
> also, what does debian use?
potato, the current stable version, supports ext2 only. woody, which is not
too far from release now, supports ext2, ext3 and reiserfs on install.
[ In the end, it's really about "what does Linux support?" because all
distributions will be able to use the many and varied filesystems available
- they may just not provide the option during installation. ]
- Jeff
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