On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Brian wrote:
> I'm in the process of re-arranging my disk partitons and I want to start
> moving stuff to a journaling file system.  I realize I'm starting a holy
> war here, but I'm pretty well sold on ReiserFS.  Are there any real
> advantages to using a different FS (xfs, jfs, ext3, etc)?  The only reason
> I'm moving to a journaling file system is because ext2 sucks.

One advantage of ext3 is that it's fully backwards compatible.

I just converted my laptop to ext3 on 2.4.9, booted into a 2.2.18 kernel,
and everyhing still worked fine.

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