ext3fs in Linus' Kernel Tree

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."

Comments

Re:Great

[trilucid]

Geez, are the moderators in a bad mood tonight? Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna lose some karma for this one (not to worry, stuck at 50 ;) )... but still, this is an obvious joke on the /. effect in all its glory...

I think humour is a large part of what keeps /. from becoming a 90% dreary place (given the rapid rate of "bad news" recently) altogether.

Of course, this could just be inter-geek jealousy over the fact that seann has a girlfriend ;) ;) ;).

ext3 or ReiserFS or XFS - is this the question?

[Auka]

Ok, I can already hear the Trolls arguing which FS is superior.

Personally I'd say that it depends and it is not the point asking whether one should use ReiserFS, ext3 or XFS.

Personally I've been using ReiserFS for ages without ANY problems at all on a number of systems running SuSE, Mandrake 8 and recently on RedHat 7 and 7.1. Over the time I've been more than satisfied with the results I got regarding speed, stability and so on.

But personally I'd really like to be able to freely choose which FS to use - I really can't understand why especially redhat was ignoring ReiserFS all the time, claiming (IMHO you can't otherwise say so!) it was "unstable". This must be some kind of weird "political" or strategic question.

So my 2c: at least leave the average user the ability to choose his preferred filesystem in Distro setups and don't just simply stick to one and ignore the others as if they wouldn't exist- nobody will complain if it's set to ext3 by default for beginners. ;)

Re:ext3, a journaled ext2 and not much more...

[SilentChris]

"I have been testing out a lot of !cough!nvidia!cough! proprietary drivers and bleeding edge software lately, and subsequently crashing. W/ ext3, I can get back to the crashing very quickly."

Um, I was once told to (and subsequently did) install Linux on my main machine in 1996, when I was told that regardless of a bad video driver, the drivers themselves never enter protected memory space and shouldn't bring down the system. (I argued that the display drawer itself may crash, but no one seemed to agree with me).

Subsequently, I haven't had Linux crash due to video problems (I've always been able to hit a virtual console to try to correct things), so I believed it. It's possible to bring down Linux with an errant display driver? And, if that's the case, how much different is this from Windows (NT-style)?

NTFS is the best!

[leereyno]

EVERYONE knows the NTFS is the best filesystem ever created. All these other filesystems toys compared to NTFS. Microsoft makes it after all, and everyone knows that Microsoft makes the best stuff. If they didn't they wouldn't be such a big rich company and able to buy off the govnerment now would they? I'm going to stop using Linux before I get in trouble. I know what's good for me, I don't want to have to explain to the computer police why I was running a subversive terrorist operating system. I'm not one of those evil hackers that try to take money away from Darth Gates, dark lord of the Sith.