Re: ext2 vs ext3 vs xfs vs reiserfs
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 10:42:21PM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> On 26 Nov 2002 at 11:22am, Isaac To wrote:
>
> :>>>>> "Matthias" == Matthias Hentges <eebe@gmx.net> writes:
> :
> : Matthias> Ext3 is rock-stable since it is based on ext2 which is in use
> : Matthias> for many years and is well tested.
> :
> :You probably cannot infer the stability of ext3 from that of ext2. The
> :layout has been made mostly compatible, but the code has been changed for
> :much more than what you can trust without trying it.
>
> Are you sure? I thought that ext3 was just ext2 plus journal. In fact,
> I've seen it suggested that you can safely revert from ext3 to ext2 by
> simply deleting the journal file and editing fstab. I seem to remember
> seeing that on this list a while back as a way to shred files reliably so
> that they could _not_ be recovered from the ext3 journal.
The filesystem _layout_ is the same, the filesystem _code_ is not
Frank
>
> I went to ext3 a month or so ago on a live system and have had no
> problems, but I haven't tried reverting to ext2.
>
> Patrick
>
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