On Monday 10 September 2001 12:25 pm, you wrote: > On my 8.0 system, I'm using Reiser FS for all partitions except for /boot, > which is ext2. I've seen on the web page about how 8.1 will have support > for ext3 (which I presume is new?) in the kernel. And I've seen comments > here which suggest that there are 8.1 beta testers on the list who are > using it on their systems. So the question is: What's the deal with ext3? > Good, bad? How is it different, what are the advantages/disadvantages of > using it? > 1. Easy to "promote" an existing ext2 filesystem to ext3 and three journaling modes, selected as options in /etc/fstab. 2. If necessary, an ext3 system can be mounted as ext2 (especially by other OS's that lack reiserfs support but have ext2 support), like if you use a non-Mandrake rescue disk or boot disk without ext3 support. 3. File and directory undeletion and recovery is possible with ext3 (as in ext2), but that is impossible with reiserfs at present. I find #2 and # 3 compelling reason to use it over reiserfs. Performance requirements are a different matter. Hoyt
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