[H-GEN] ext2 or ext3

[Christopher Biggs]

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Robert Kearey <mammal at optushome.com.au> moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake thusly:

> Shaun Nykvist wrote:
>
>> [...]I had a colleague
>> trying to convince me that ext3 was a better way to go 
>
> Your colleague is correct. A journalled filesystem is always nicer to
> have around than un anjournalled one. 

Except when it's buggy.  But I think it's safe to say that most of the
bugs have shaken out of ext3 by now.

Anyone else remember the early days of the SCO HTFS (aka "Low Reliability
File System")?   Blecch.

--cjb

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