[lug] journaling fs

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 07:05:40PM -0600, Sebastian Sobolewski wrote:
>         Migrating is a pain since there is no way to convert an ext2 
>partition to raiserFS.  (I think ext2 can be converted to ext3)  You have 
>to copy/backup your files somewhere else then reformat as reiserFS and 

The nice thing about ext3 is that the additions are optional.  The
story is that they were modifying ext2 to add btree-structured directory
trees and journaling.  Linus didn't want to release a new "ext2" which
might have some stability problems, so he made them change the name to
ext3.

The journaling is done such that as long as you cleanly un-mount the
journaled file-system, you can re-mount it as ext2.  The btree directory
entries can be enabled on a directory-by-directory basis, so you can try
before you buy there as well.  That was last I heard though, things may
have changed.

Sean
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