Messages in this thread | | | From | Andreas Dilger <> | Subject | Re: ext3-0.0.2e released | Date | Thu, 6 Jul 2000 10:38:42 -0600 (MDT) |
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Thomas Davis writes: > > Why not use Reiserfs? I think journaling is a must with disks that > > large, and reiserfs is faster dan ext2 if you have a lot of files/dirs > > in a directory. > > > > Uhm simple. > > 1) it's using software raid (note - NOT md). Software raid5 & > journaling filesystems in v2.2 don't get along.
This is still a problem, unfortunately.
> 3) journaling wasn't available when these large filesystems went online, > and we wasn't going to reformat just for journaling.
The benefit of ext3 is that you _can_ simply switch from using ext2 to ext3 (and back, if you want). All you need to do is create a journal file, and supply the "journal=<inode num>" option at the first boot.
Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and a pound of antipasto, \ would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?" http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ -- Dogbert
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