Re: upgrade to ext3 ?

[Johann Spies <jspies@sun.ac.za>]

On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 02:06:22AM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Tim Dijkstra wrote:
> 
> > Just curious (I'm not really into file systems): Why should I want
> > ext3 instead of ext2? Is it speed, stability?
> 
> A little of both.

I thought ext3 might be a little bit slower especially under heavy
load.  It has got extra work to do.  But I may be wrong...

Another by product of ext3 is that you will have less disk space
available using ext3 than ext2 - also less than reiserfs.


Johann
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