Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
>
> At 06:02 PM 6/11/01 -0500, Gonyou, Austin wrote:
> >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.
>
> Really? Reiser doesn't have dump/restore (I don't like tar, personal
> preference). JFS and XFS are not standard at this point (I have fought
> valiantly to get xfs and win4lin patches to co-exist, and decided to give
> up for awhile).
Plus, ext3 is the only one which can be applied to an existing
filesystem. All the others require mkfs-ing. ext3 also allows
you to boot and mount the filesystem with only ext2 support in
the kernel.
I've been using it on my desktops, servers and laptop for almost
a year now. No data errors, no mount failures, and I can use any
install/boot/rescue disks I want - not that I've had to.
I can also change back to ext2 in about 2 minutes if I need to use
a kernel without ext3 support.
Dan, thanks for the link. I spent a couple of days over the last
week or two searching for 2.4.x/ext3 patches with little success.
The only one I found was a source RPM of an ac9 kernel from somewhere
in Europe. I don't know why UoW(Univerity of Western Australia) didn't
come up - it's certainly closer. <grin>
http://www.uow.edu.au/~andrewm/linux/ext3
Cheers, glen.
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