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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. In the immortal words of Monty Python... by los+furtive · · Score: 2, Redundant

    ...and there was much rejoicing.

    --

    I'm a writer, a poet, a genius, I know it. I don't buy software, I grow it.

  2. Mirror by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Here is a mirror, incase it is slashdoted

  3. Yay! by BitwizeGHC · · Score: 1, Redundant

    My /home partition is reiser and I have been satisfied with it. But when X decides to poo itself for the umpteenth time (Radeon DRI drivers cause a hard freeze on my ALi chipset... unless I booted and used 3D under Windows first) I hate having to fsck my / partition (which is still stuck in ext2 land because I'm afraid to change it). Maybe ext3 will be the solution for this.

    --
    N4st0r, trixx0r h0bb1tz0rz! Th3y st0l3 0ur pr3c10uzz!
  4. ext3's albatross by foo · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Is its ext2 compatibility.

    It's _not_ just ext2 with a journal bolted onto the side. It's an excellent journalling filesystem in it own right. Judge it as such.

    And ext3 is unique in that it journals data, not just metadata.

    It is also by a decent margin the cleverest and most complex piece of the kernel which I've seen, and I've seen a lot of the kernel, not to mention quite a bit of ext3.

    Much credit and congratulations to Stephen Tweedie
    for this great software.

    - akpm

  5. using xfs by quarterbooty · · Score: 0, Redundant

    just got done patching 2.4.14 to include xfs support and converted partitions (all expect /boot and swap obviously) to xfs. so far so good. i am glad to see ext3 making it into the vanilla tree. i don't plan on using it, but more choices are good. one of my other boxes is using reiser with no troubles either. i don't expect to see xfs merge into the 2.4 tree. hopefully, it will make it into 2.5 and subsequently 2.6. it was proven stable on irix and i hope it turns out the same way on linux. anyone using ibm's JFS? i seem to always hear people converting to xfs, reiser, and ext3, but not too many mentions of JFS.