Re: ext3 why?

[xucaen <xucaen@access-4-free.com>]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 06:43:02PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, xucaen wrote:
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> > hi all, just looking for information here; why use ext3 journaling fs instead of ext2?
> 
> copy all your important *.mp3 and *.mpeg files onto
> your 100GB disk partitioned as ext2 .. as if that was
> your only copy of it
> 
> now power off your system ... and reboot
> 
> and if you're smart, you'd answer "y".. please check the fs when
> it reboots from a power failure/reset switch
> 
> 
> than do the same test with ext3, reiserfs, jfs, etc
> where "journeling" is supposedly working right
> 
> c ya
> alvin
> 


I don't get it.... are you saying ext3 recovers better or worse?

jim