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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