[lug] journaling fs

[Alan Robertson]

Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 08:23:19PM -0600, Alan Robertson wrote:
> >I'm not sure if the btree stuff is in ext3.  Stephen created ext3 as a
> >separate type so he could run both types on his machines and not destroy
> >them all (like root for example) when he was first starting.
> 
> I seem to remember there was some discussion required on that.  When Ted and
> Stephen presented on it back at the 96 Linux Expo (I believe) they were still
> calling it "ext2 journaling"...
> 
> The idea I was trying to get across though was that ext3 is based on the
> existing stable code.

Yep.
And supported by Tom's Root Boot, etc.

> The bummer about ReiserFS is that thus far I don't know of a project to
> extend-shrink it.  The new ext2 utilities have that ability and it
> works quite nicely.  Though you do have to take the file-system off-line
> to do that, unlike with Online Veritas.

I thought that existed, although I'm not sure.

	-- Alan Robertson
	   alanr at suse.com