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Ext2 bit rot (was: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp ... OT question)



Henrique de Moraes Holschuh:
> On Sun, 25 Mar 2012, Paul E Condon wrote:
>>> I'm sure some/many of you will gasp at that fact I still use EXT2.  If
>>> it ain't broke, don't "fix" it.  The /boot and root filesystems are on
>>> EXT2, with all data storage on XFS.  Never had problems with EXT2 in
>>> this setup, so it lives on, for now.
> 
> You are, of course, aware of the term "bit rot"?
> 
> ext2 is mostly unused nowadays, and it gets little attention and testing.
> It depends heavily on the VFS layer pagecache, and other areas of the kernel
> to work well.  But THOSE areas are not staying put.  So, ext2 *will* bit
> rot.

I was under the impression that at least ext3 (and maybe even ext4)
shares a lot of code with ext2. Is this wrong?

J.
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