[H-GEN] ext2 or ext3

[Scott Pullen]

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My understanding is that ext3 'just' adds journalling so that the 
filesystem is more fault tolerant.  This adds a little overhead but 
there are less problems with a restart after losing power etc.

Implementing it on install is no problem so I guess my question is why not?

Cheers,

Scott.

>  been using ext2 on my redhat boxen for quite some time (before the 
> hard drive crashed - didn't lose any data though so I am pleased in 
> that sense), however, after this crash I had a colleague trying to 
> convince me that ext3 was a better way to go - can someone enlighten 
> me with any pluses or minuses to using this type of file system???




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