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Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS?



On Jan 19, 2008 7:17 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com> wrote:

> > ext3 = ext2 + metadata(default) journaling.  Therefore slower than ext2.

> But all of that still gives me no reason to change all of my ext2
> partitions to something else.

ext3 isn't noticably slower for user-environments, you can convert to
ext3 without reformatting, and ext2 has very poor crash recovery
compared to 3.  tune2fs -j <device> and it'll convert your ext2 to
ext3.

-- 
Paul Johnson
baloo@ursine.ca


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