Re: should I try ext3 filesystems even though barely documented?

[Alex Malinovich <demonbane@the-love-shack.net>]

Bob Proulx wrote:

> > > > > What is this I hear about "ext3" filesystems, is it worth the change
> > > > > for junior home user me, and mainly, on woody, I do
> > yeah, granted, a fsck on a disk that large can take time, but your 140 gigs 
> > still doesn't qualify as a compelling reason for me to change mine. working 
> > with 6 gigs, it really doesn't provide a great advantage. dan was asking for 
> > a whyto more than a howto, so i guess the answer would be size of disk * 
> > power failure.
>
> A good metric for the original poster.  Pull the power plug out and
> reboot.  Time how long it takes to fsck the disks.  If the time is
> acceptable, say a minute, then ext3 does not buy you significant
> advantage.  If that time is 30 minutes then ext3 buys you 30 minutes.
Or you can just do "touch /forcefsck" and reboot. That's if you don't 
mind skipping the fun of giving your computer a cardiac arrest. ;)

-Alex



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