ext3 Bug in 2.4.20

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 06:07:59PM -0800, Net Llama! wrote:
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>This isn't entirely true.  I'd wager that there's alot more XFS, AFS & 
>JFS boxen out there than ext2/3, with alot more data on them.

That would truly surprise me.  I would guess that the majority of
Linux boxen in the world are running ext2.

>If ext3 has worked great for some folks, i'm happy for them & their 
>data.  The bottom line for me is that just a single problem with ext3 
>was more than i had with XFS.  Ignoring how much time a fsck takes on 
>ext2/3 still doesn't make it any better.  Just watching & praying that 
>everything turns out ok is not my idea of a good time.

I think that ext3 offers something that XFS doesn't, journalling
of the data as well as the directory metadata.  I found this from
the postfix mailing list:
	http://www.stahl.bau.tu-bs.de/~hildeb/postfix/ext3.shtml

Bill
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