From: James Youngman (no email)
Date: Sun Oct 14 2001 - 11:57:35 EDT
Keith Matthews <> writes:
> ext3 offers metadata and (optionally) file content journalling. It
> will almost certainly be in RH 7.2 and in the vanilla kernel soon.
It's certainly in Red Hat version 7.1.93 (which I use on my laptop).
> For those wishing to move a production server forward it has the
> major advantage of not needing a dump/restore of the filesystem to
> adopt.
Both upgrade and reversion to ext2 are seamless. In fact, I made a
config error on my system - booting without support for ext2 - and
seamlessly rolled back to ext2 without data loss. Once I figured out
what had changed (noticing different syslog messages at mount time) I
was very impressed.
However, I have not yet used ext3 on a production system. Having read
of the extensive testing ext3 has already gone through, I would be
willing to do so, once RH 7.2 has been released and the usual initial
batch of fixes for that release have surfaced.
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