On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 10:14:03PM -0500, dman wrote: > On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 08:27:11PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > | On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 08:47:54PM -0500, dman wrote: > | > On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:46:41PM +0000, Simon Hepburn wrote: > | > | On Wednesday 06 Mar 2002 9:11 pm, dman wrote: > | ext3 is probably a good idea if you aren't going to be around in case > | there is a power outage or someone trips over the power cord. I use > | etx3 on all my boxes running 2.4.17 and haven't (yet) experienced any > | problems (now I wait for all the replies saying "ext3 is B0rken on > | 2.4.17!!1!" :) > > I've got 2.4.17 on all my systems. (2.4.18 is out now, but not > packaged last I checked) Please check again. I just installed it few days ago:
Linux XXXXX 2.4.18-686-smp #1 SMP Fri Mar 1 00:33:20 EST 2002 i686 unknown > Are there any tricks or gotchas to setting > it up? Here's what I know (I did include support in the kernel) : > o /etc/fstab -- s/ext2/ext3/ > o make the journal file (using 'tunefs'?) > > The only thing I'm concerned about is trying to set up a new feature, > but not setting it up correctly and not being around to fix the setup. I asked this issue in this ML and had interesting responses. 1. fstab to contain "ext3,ext2" as entry 2. make a link with name "/sbin/fsck.ext3,ext2" If you wonder what I am talking: check kernel chapter of "Debian reference", PLEASE. There I copied result of discussion under EXT3 cherrs :) -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ +++++ Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D Visit Debian reference http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/quick-reference/ There are 6 files: index.{en|fr|it}.html quick-reference.{en|fr|it}.txt I welcome your constructive criticisms and corrections.
