Request comparison of relative strenths of the variousjournaling file systems

[Tim Wunder]

On 4/7/2003 8:26 AM, someone claiming to be Mel Roman wrote:
> Thanks for your responses.  Here are some followup questions:
> 
> Collins Richey <erichey2 at attbi.com> writes:
<snip>
>>2. Some like myself prefer EXT3 because it is "simpler" and a part of
>>the standard kernel 2.4.x (and later) distribution.  I've used EXT3 for
>>a couple of years, and it has always recovered successfully from
>>emergency shutdowns.
> 
> 
> How is it "simpler"?  I just installed ReiserFS for my test environment
> and just had to specify which filesystem I wanted to use.  Can you clarify?
> 

An ext2 partition can be converted into a journalled ext3 partition 
easily, with a single command, 'tune2fs -j <partition>'.

Converting ext2 to ReiserFS or XFS is a little more complicated.