[plug] ext3

[Colin Muller]

On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 10:02:05PM +0800, Michael Hunt wrote:
> Tim wrote:
> 
> > What is ext3? Should i change to it? How do you convert to ext3?
> >
> > also what is RAID?

[much good advice from Michael snipped]
> http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/R/RAID.html

The Linux Software RAID HOWTO also has some good descriptions of what
RAID is and its various levels:
http://www.linux.org.au/LDP/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html
 
> (http://people.spoiled.org/jha/ext3-faq.html)

The one thing this and most people talking of journalling fs's do not
make clear is that a periodic fsck is still a good idea, because there
are circumstances (like nascent disk failure) where no journalling can
help.  Even ext3's inventor does not recommend disabling periodic full
fsck checks on ext3 filesystems - or any other journalling filesystem:

http://store.redhat.com/mailing-lists/ext3-users/msg02479.html

Colin