Hell,
   just use a real journaling filesystem like Reiser, JFS, or XFS. They are
all VERY mature and have lots of tools for disk administration.

-- 
Austin Gonyou
Systems Architect, CCNA
Coremetrics, Inc.
Phone: 512-796-9023
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Glen Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 5:22 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Win4Lin-users] which journal FS - update
> 
> 
> 
>   As I said in my post last week, I tried to do the same thing.
> I assume you are using a 2.2.x kernel.  I tried to apply the
> Win4Lin patch to a 2.4.4-ac9 kernel because it's the only one
> in the 2.4 series I can find an ext3 patch for, but there were
> a couple of failures which I could not resolve by hand.
> 
>   If you did manage to apply it to a 2.4.x-ext3 kernel, please
> email me the details, as I _really_ need 2.4 and ext3 on my
> system.
> 
> Cheers, glen.
> 
> Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
> > decided to give ext3 a shot.  has the virtue of having a
> > fairly simple kernel patch, and it's backward compatible
> > with ext2 (in fact you can convert an existing filesystem
> > without any save/restore).
> > 
> > a couple of patch conflicts, since the ext3 patch tried to
> > patch sched.h, and so did netraverse's patch.  this turned
> > out to be trivial to fix.  converted my 5 filesystems, and
> > i'm posting this now from a ext3 system (best thing is there
> > is no fear of problems with win4lin C: drive, since ext3 is
> > absolutely identical at the filesystem level.
> > 
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