Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 24 Sep 2001 20:49:46 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: Linux-2.4.10 + ext3 |
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Andrew Morton wrote: > And the main reason for having the same on-disk format is not, IMO, to > ease migration between the two filesystems. That's just a once-off > activity.
I disagree that it's a once-off activity. I've been known to switch between ext2 and ext3 and ext2 and ext3... just so I can boot old kernels such as rescue disks. It's nice to be able to do this.
Also I don't think resize2fs resizes the journal (but I may be wrong), so I've converted ext3 to ext2 to resize a filesystem, then converted back.
I did have a big disaster once when I compiled ext3 into a kernel and not ext2 (which I left as a module). You can guess, it couldn't mount the root filesystem.
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