Re: ext3 why?
On Tuesday 24 February 2004 11:02 pm, Jan Minar wrote:
> Once upon a time, Jan converted his ext2 partitions to ext3. His
> understanding of the journalling options was even weaker than it is
> today. Days passed, several crashes occurred. Jan didn't care. He
> thought the journal would. The Fsck Day came. One filesystem error
> message after another started appearing on the screen, revealing that
> the journal was not as journalling as Jan originally thought.
>
> Jan was mystified.
A journalling file system is of no help when the cause of the crash is
bad memory, bad disk, disk controller bugs. If your hardware is really
bad, the best file system is a simple one with no buffering. You might
consider FAT.
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