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Why Redhat Choose ext3 For 7.2

Posted by Hemos on from the the-reasons-for-the-season dept.

mz001b writes "There is an interesting article from RH posted on LinuxToday discussing why they chose ext3 over the other available journaling filesystems (ReiserFS, xfs, jfs,...) for RH 7.2"

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  1. Really not a surprise ... by hal0802 · · Score: 4, Informative

    ... since Alan Cox (@redhat.com) had so many arguments over the Linux kernel Mailing List with Hans Reiser.
    This thread is a good example.

  2. Not what it says! by arestivo · · Score: 5, Informative
    I wonder if who posted this article even read the original one.

    The article at LinuxToday isn't about RedHat prefering ext3 over other journaling filesystems. It's merely an explaination of why they decided to include ext3 in the new RedHat 7.2.

    ... I wrote up a short piece that I hope to flesh out a bit more later on why Red Hat chose to include ext3 in this release ...

    The only comparison made is between ext3 and ext2 where they explain the advantages of a journaling system.

  3. Re:Other Journaling file systems available? by bero-rh · · Score: 4, Informative

    I did not see any mention on the article on whether other journaling file systems would be available on Red Hat 7.2 as part of the installation/upgrade procedure.

    We support installing to ext2 and ext3; reiserfs partitions are preserved when they're existing.

    The kernel does not have XFS or JFS patched in (mostly code issues).

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