[plug] Four journalling FSes!

[Leon Brooks]

Christian wrote:
> Leon Brooks wrote:
>> a lot less of a way than writing one from scratch.

> Definitely, I'm just annoyed because I want my journalling filesystem
> and I want it now DAMMIT! :P

Try ext3 or reiserfs, both of which are reputed to work now. I have not
tried reiserfs, but it claims to be much faster than ext2.

> > If Microsoft can claim one JFS for Windows NT/0000 and yet their admins
> > still install a FAT boot partition, I have no problem with chalking up
> > four JFSes for Linux.

> At least those admins have the *option* of using a journalling fs
> straight out of the box which we, presently, don't really have.

ext3 works fine for me. Just not quickly - yet. OTOH, it also guarantees
journalling of your data blocks, not just the metadata. With the (future
AFAIK) metadata-only option, it too will be faster than ext2 under load
by effectively concatenating metadata operations.

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