[H-GEN] ext2 or ext3

[Robert Kearey]

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Shaun Nykvist wrote:

> I have 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???

Your colleague is correct. A journalled filesystem is always nicer to 
have around than un anjournalled one. The Red Hat whitepaper explains 
what it is and what it does better than I, and can be found here.

http://www.redhat.com/support/wpapers/redhat/ext3/

Ext3 is a tremendous gadget in terms of transparency, reliability and 
compatibility, and I've no hesitation in reccomending it. There are 
issues with big sites with deep, complicated quotas, but linux quota 
management is less than amazing at the moment anyway.

Others will reccomend alternative journalling filesystems, such as 
reiserfs, jffs and so on (or even using *BSD and softupdates/snapshots), 
but I'd reccomend sticking with ext3 for now.

> Shaun

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