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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. What about Stephen Tweedie? by soboroff · · Score: 2, Redundant
    My first thought was that it's because Stephen Tweedie, lead developer of ext3, works for RedHat. ReiserFS was developed primarily by SUSE. JFS and XFS come from IBM and SGI.

    So I read the article, and all of those reasons could easily apply to any of the above filesystems. Never mind that all of them are more mature and more stable than ext3. The only technical argument for ext3 is the upgrade path: ext3 is ext2 with a journal. But the real reason might be that RH can speed adoption (and by the bazaar model, improvement) of ext3, developed at RedHat, this way.