Re: [Sheflug] ReiserFS vs. Ext3fs ... :-)

[Andy Smith <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 12:21:52AM +0100, José Luis Gómez Dans wrote:

> 	The interesting thing on the mdk comparison (i.e., the latest
> and gr8test was that ext2 is usually a very fast and reliable option,
> and that a journaling FS might be a waste of space for many users.
> Anyway, a balanced argument...

ext3 is (currently) just ext2 with journalling.  Journalling is just
a way of making sure that filesystem metadata is always in a
consistent state, even if the machine should crash or lose power
unexpectedly.  So use of ext3 should just be based on whether having
to fsck to repair metadata at boot time is acceptable.

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