Re: ext3 why?

[Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca>]

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On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:51:26PM -0500, xucaen wrote:
> hi all, just looking for information here; why use ext3 journaling
> fs instead of ext2?

If you crash, or otherwise don't unmount cleanly, when it comes time
to remount, no data is lost, the journal gets replayed, and things
pick up from there.  You only need to do a preventative fsck every so
often, but the FS is pretty good about getting the kernel to do that
for it automagically as needed.  Plus, you can use all the same tools
on ext3 filesystems as you do ext2 ones (as long as they're from more
recent versions that support journals, all current Debians are recent
enough to have them).

I've had crashes jumble ext2 filesystems pretty badly in the past.
When in doubt, go ext3.

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