Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new userquestion: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

[Jan Willem Stumpel <jstumpel@planet.nl>]

Curt Howland wrote:

> If I may interject, creating the journal just creates a blank
> file.

This would explain why creating the journal does not seem to take
any time. But "strings" showed that there was a lot of stuff (at
least lots of filenames) in it. Perhaps the journal is *created*
as a blank file, and then some background process immediately
begins to fill it? Anyway, whatever it does, it seems to be a very
clever system.

Regards, Jan