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ext3fs in Linus' Kernel Tree

Posted by michael on from the journaling-for-the-unshaven-masses dept.

peloy writes: "According to Linus' changelog for Linux 2.4.15pre2, the long waited ext3fs, the sucessor of ext2 with jounaling capabilities, has finally made its way into the official kernel tree. I have never tried ext3fs but it looks that now that it is "blessed" by Linus I'll be upgrading my old and trusty ext2fs partitions soon."

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  1. Source Forge uses ReiserFS by brinkster · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Not sure how new this is but a quote from someone at Source Forge on the ReiserFS site.

    http://ftp.sourceforge.net/ has 850GB storage, half of which is reiserfs, half is ext2. Both filesystems have been running flawlessly for > 4 months of production (actually longer, but wasn't reiserfs before). That server pushes between 15Mbit and 50Mbit/sec, and pulls/syncs about 2-5Mbit/sec, 24x7. reiserfs also powers the CVS tree filesystem for cvs-mirror.mozilla.org (also tokyojoe.sourceforge.net), which is the one and only anonymous CVS checkout point for mozilla. That server has run flawlessly under very heavy load since its birth. I don't get involved in kernel politics, but as a production filesystem, reiserfs is ok in my book.

  2. Re:it's really simple by LinuxHam · · Score: 5, Insightful

    no more backup of 30G of data

    I'm hoping by this comment that you're not the same user who's Ask Slashdot just got posted, asking how to become a UNIX admin, cuz this ain't it. It's funny that you should pick that exact number too, because a close friend of mine was shifting disks around in his systems yesterday. At some point he lost track of exactly which hard drive was connected to which ribbon and which IDE port that ribbon was connected to. He ended up running a fresh install of RH7.2 over the 30GB hard drive to which he had "backed up" everything he has collected over the last five years. He called me saying he felt like he was going to throw up.

    I say "backed up" because, as an enterprise systems architect, I don't believe anything is a backup unless it takes at least a little effort to destroy the data. You can't throw a write protect tab on a hard drive. When I traded a P75 system for a 10GB hard drive with the friend above, he gave it to me with over 5GB's of his stuff on it. I backed it up to tape with Amanda, and write-protected the tape. I never thought *he* would need me to restore his data off my tape.

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  3. Well.. by mindstrm · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't judge a filesystem based on what kind of tools are there to 'convert' it from something else. That's not what it's designed for, and has nothing to do with what you get out of it.

    No kidding ext2 takes seconds to convert to ext3... it's the same filesystem.