ext3 Bug in 2.4.20

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 09:28:53PM -0500, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
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>> On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 04:48:42PM -0800, Net Llama! wrote:
>>> On 12/03/02 16:23, kwall at kurtwerks.com wrote:
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>> Okay, now we're down to cases. ext3 is not immune to data loss, but it is
>> far less so than ext2. I don't have a terrabyte raid array to worry about,
>> so a "stupid time-consuming fsck" takes, oh, 10 minutes. Despite the
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>Is ext3 faster than ext2?  I have a 36gig drive the when the "mount count 
>exceded" time comes up it takes 15-20 minutes to check but it's ext2.

I don't see that ext3 would be any faster than ext2, possibly a tad slower
since it's built on top of ext2 with additional journaling capabilites.
When it does a full fsck, it's working with the underlying ext2 file
system.

Bill
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