Re: ext3 filesystem / linux 7.3

On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 12:33:15PM -0500, Jeffrey D. Brower wrote:
> What is the URL of that article?  I understood that ext2 was faster with PG
> and so I went to a lot of trouble of creating an ext2 partition just for PG
> and gave up the journalling to do that.  Something about double effort since
> PG already does a lot of that.

I don't know how ext3 could be faster than ext2, since it has to do
more work.

But ext2 is not crash-safe.  So your data could well be hosed if you
come back from a crash on ext2.

Actually, I have my doubts about _any_ of the journaling filesystems
for Linux: ext3 has a reputation for being slow if you journal in the
real-safe mode, and there have been so many unrepeatable reiserfs
problem reports that I'm loathe to use it for real systems.  I had
exceptionally good experiences with xfs when I was admining SGI
boxes, but that's not part of the standard Linux kernel distribution,
and with no idea why, I think my managers would get grumpy with me
for using it.

A

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