On Sun, Sep 15, 2002 at 03:30:50PM -0400, Richard Lemay wrote: > Hello everyone. > I was playing with the idea to move my data to ext3 since I now have > ext2 anywhere to mount my ext3 in windows should the need arise. Just about any tool that works with ext2 SHOULD work with ext3 without problems. I would still do a backup though. > My question is... should I? Is ext3 reliable? Since I plan to record VCD > of Star Trek ( :o)), will fragmentation be a problem? What are your > experiences with ext3? ext3 is very reliable in my opinion. I do a lot of video work (capturing, encoding, editing, etc), and fragmentation has never been a problem. I also find that, depending on journaling mode, I incur little to no penalty for the journaling. > BTW, HardDisk Manager (Paragon Software) allows me to format ext2 with a > 8 cluster size (I don't remember the exact term). Is it safe and will > the various ext2 tools work well with that block size since I've never > seen anything other than a size of 2. I can't tell you about this. I suggest that if you decide to do it, that you backup your data first. As always, -- ------------------------------------------ Edward Guldemond Key fingerprint: 29FF 2969 A04E F934 3F03 4329 BC56 3AA7 2F57 6735
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