That's true, but one is lacking capabilities the others just come with.
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Austin Gonyou
Systems Architect, CCNA
Coremetrics, Inc.
Phone: 512-796-9023
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Glen Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 7:14 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Win4Lin-users] which journal FS - update
>
>
> 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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