Vox wrote:
> Silly Gary Lawrence Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> becomes daring and writes:
>
>
>>>>>>>"B" == Biagio Lucini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>>>>>
>> B> Seriously, you have given a partial view of what ext3 is. There
>> B> are serious reasons to choose it in my view
>>
>>This is a naive question and my first-guess is that it is not
>>possible, but is there any way to 'upgrade' a live file-system to
>>ext3? I have some older machines that could benefit, but it's not
>>worth doing a complete re-install of all software.
>
>
> Yes, you can. ext3 is ext2 with a journal stuck in (and some driver
> improvements, I believe), so you just tune2fs it (-j option, IIRC)
> and mod your /etc/fstab
>
> Do a google for it, to make sure (I went ext2-reiserfs-ext3 so I
> didn't get to play with tune2fs) but it should be fairly easy.
>
> Vox
>
well, when I went ext3 I started getting major shutdown problems, where
the system can't unmount device, like eth0 and /dev/fd0 ( thelast is
really wierd the device is busy and no such device on the computer )
it is faster, and definately an improvement for that alone, but it
doesn't like shutting down eth0 on my tower or the floppy drive on
diskless workstation ( laptop)
just an observation of how ext3 worked for me.
