Re: HFS+ (MacOS) in contrast to EXT2 (Linux-i386)

[Sven <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>]

On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 03:40:44PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 03:03:06PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> > 
> > This seems to be the first main stream example of FS conversion in linux.
> 
> not really.  ext3 really isn't any different from ext2 from a format
> perspective, the only thing `conversion' really does is add a journal
> inode (a file) and set a feature bit.  

ext3 is not in the 'official' kernel's though, is there a reason for it ? 
Is it political, does it still need testing, or are there some issues yet ?

and BTW, having the /var/lib/dpkg/status file corrupted is a big mess, is
there any way to rebuild it without resinstalling all packages (guessed at
from a ls of /usr/share/doc ...)

Friendly,

Sven Luther