[H-GEN] ext2 or ext3

[Jason Henry Parker]

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Ben Fowler <fowlerb at optushome.com.au> writes:

> The benefits of using a journalled filesystem are fairly well-known:
> it can dramatically cut down on the time to fsck your disks upon
> startup, since instead of running a full fsck, it merely reconciles
> the volume journal.

Some of the ext3 changelog messages are *truly* scary.  XFS has been
around for a *long* time and beyond the added complexity (though to be
honest I don't recall if XFS or LVM was more complex) I can't see any
reason to use ext3 instead of it.

> One the whole though, I think that making use of a journalled
> filesystem, if available is a good idea.

I don't think journalling is necessarily useful in all situations, and
in any event most journalled FSes only journal metadata, so I'm unsure
of the utility.  Suggestions, anyone?
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