[plug] Fax & Voicemail Random Thought...

[Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima]

On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Bret Busby wrote:

> On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Craig Ringer wrote:
> 
> > 
> > > Survival of the computer, and especially of everything on the hard disk. I
> > > thought that would be obvious, from what I stated.
> > Well the disk can be taken care of by our friend the journalling file 
> > system. No disk for the last 10+ years has needed to be "parked" or 
> > otherwise protected from sudden power failures, the hardware will be fine.
> > 
> 
> 1. Isn't journalling part of ext3, rather than ext2? If so, doesn't that
> cause problems trying to access journalling systems, from systems that are
> ext2, such as RH 6.2? (Still in the process of switching to RH7.3, but
> will still keep RH 6.2)

Yes ext3 is the journalling aware version of ext2, you can mount an ext3
filesystem as ext2 as it is disklayout compatable (of course you lose
journalling).

Yours Tony

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