On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 10:42:21PM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On 26 Nov 2002 at 11:22am, Isaac To wrote: > > :>>>>> "Matthias" == Matthias Hentges <eebe@gmx.net> writes: > : > : Matthias> Ext3 is rock-stable since it is based on ext2 which is in use > : Matthias> for many years and is well tested. > : > :You probably cannot infer the stability of ext3 from that of ext2. The > :layout has been made mostly compatible, but the code has been changed for > :much more than what you can trust without trying it. > > Are you sure? As Frank said, the on disk format is rather similar, but the actual code is diverging. > I thought that ext3 was just ext2 plus journal. In fact, > I've seen it suggested that you can safely revert from ext3 to ext2 by > simply deleting the journal file and editing fstab. You don't even need to delete the journal, AFAIK; just mount it as ext2. > I seem to remember > seeing that on this list a while back as a way to shred files reliably so > that they could _not_ be recovered from the ext3 journal. Deleting the journal would (obviously) have that effect. -rob
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