ext3 Bug in 2.4.20

[Net Llama!]

On 12/03/02 18:16, Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 06:07:59PM -0800, Net Llama! wrote:
> ..
>>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.

I wasn't talking about just Linux boxen, but all Unix.

> 
>>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

Why would this be useful?  Sounds like making a backup of your backup.

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