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SubjectRe: [PPC] ext2 filesytem corruption on linux 2.2.9 PowerPC
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   Date: 	Sun, 13 Jun 1999 17:01:20 +0200 (CEST)
From: Simon Richter <geier@phobos.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de>

Well, other filesystems than ext2 are much better suited for removable
media (minixfs for example). I hardly know anyone using ext2 on removable
media *and* exchanging software with people using other
platforms. :-)

There really isn't a problem using ext2 for removeable media, unless
it's a portability concern (in which case using vfat is a better choice
than minixfs). The one issue with using ext2 for smaller disks that by
default mke2fs creates a filesystem fairly large inode table, and on a
1.44 meg floppy the overhead is pretty noticeable. This can be
addressed using the the -i option to mke2fs. A larger number passed to
-i will decrease the number of inodes created; the default value is
4096, which means there will be enough inodes created for if the
average file size is 4k.

- Ted

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