[plug] ext3 fs

Leon Brooks leon at brooks.fdns.net
Wed Dec 27 08:58:03 WST 2000


Andrew Furey wrote:

> I was wondering if anyone's had any good/bad
> experience with ext3? IIRC when /. had an article on
> it when it first appeared, they said it's basically
> ext2 + extra (small) journalling code, and that you
> can go from ext2 to ext3 and back again, no trouble at
> all.

Tried it some time ago (0.2c?) and it was stable but not fast, however I 
understand that it is being ``fastened'' considerably.

BTW, you don't need a Mandrake distro to run reiserfs.




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