Re: [TCLUG:14271] ext3

["Eric M. Hopper" <hopper@omnifarious.mn.org>]

On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 02:01:17PM -0600, Mike Hicks wrote:
> > I was waiting for xfs, but if ext3 works that well! Coolness.
> 
> Eeep!  I wouldn't wait for XFS -- I think that will be a while..  I
> might try out ReiserFS one of these days (I think I may get a big drive
> soon -- that would be a good format to put on it..)  However, I don't
> know if ReiserFS is architecture-independent yet (i386 only, right
> now..)  Ext3 sounds nice (it sounds like the successor to ext2, gee..),
> but I worry a bit since it's supposed to be backwards-compatible.  You
> get new features, but there is the potential for a lot of problems to be
> inherited..  Also, I'd hate to see what happens if I accidentally ran an
> ext2 fsck on an ext3 partition (though fsck probably checks the version
> of the filesystem before doing anything..)
> 
> *shrug*  That's all IMHO..

	I don't know much about XFS, but I do know that ReiserFS is
significantly better than ext2, or ext3.  The guy who wrote it has a
very interesting and innovative approach to the problem disk based
hierarchical databases.  :-)

	I think I'm going to be setting up a new box for a friend with
ReiserFS.  My only concern is that when he upgrades, it'll install a new
kernel that doesn't have ReiserFS, and then there'll be trouble.  And
no, I don't want to make him learn how to compile his own kernel.

Have fun (if at all possible),
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