Re: ext3 on install

[DvB <dvanbalen@jam.rr.com>]

Craig Dickson <crdic@yahoo.com> writes:

> Adam McDaniel wrote:
> 
> > I'm curious if anyone here has any knowledge of Debian, in any future
> > release, will prompt the user to install an ext3 filesystem during
> > the initial install.
> > 

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> 
> I haven't been paying terribly close attention to Woody, but isn't it
> essentially frozen except for bug fixes at this point? In which case,
> it's unlikely to take a major change like a new filesystem. So as far as
> Debian Stable goes, I would be surprised to see ext3 built-in until the
> next release after Woody, which is to say, more than a year from now.
> 

Of course, once ext3 is in the standard kernel, one need only create the
journal file (plus one or two other tweaks like disabling ext2 fsck),
reboot (assuming even that's necessary) and, voila!, one's ext2
filesystem automagically becomes ext3...