Actually, ext3 is almost a total rewrite. While ext2 was designed with various 'hooks' which allows extra functionality via 'plug-ins' (including on-the-fly compression and journalling), the ext3 designers thought it best to start afresh. Ext2 is still a very good filesystem, with an elegant design. It made sense to make ext3 in a similar fashion.That being the case, it also made sense to make it backward-compatible with ext2.
While generally being the slowest FS, ext3 has one advantage over the others: data integrity. With ext3, you have the choice of having no journalling (for maximum speed; just like ext2), metadata journalling (like ReiserFS, XFS and JFS) or even data journalling (for maximum data integrity, at the expense of speed). The third option, data journalling, is available only to ext3, and makes it a far more reliable FS than the others. I personally use ReiserFS on my home system. I've had a single 10GB partition for all my data (my drive is too small to make multiple partitions very practicable) for about a year now, and my system has recovered flawlessly from numerous crashes and outages. I use ReiserFS 3.5, which was the latest when I created the partition, which I am told is a little better than the latest today, 3.6. On Thu, 28 Feb 2002 11:49:45 -0700, Praedor Tempus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Simple. I use Reiser. Works great, is fast and stable. You can also > trust ext3 (which is essentially a slightly modified ext2 fs) but it is > still slower than Reiser (not much but it is). > > Either one will do it. > > On Thursday 28 February 2002 11:16 am, you wrote: > > Hello out there... > > > > I hope this question won't raise a fs-jihad ;-). > > And I hope this mail isn't too long, but I'm > > trying to be as specific as possible. > [...] -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "Ok, the guy who made the netfilter Makefile was probably on some really interesting and probably highly illegal drugs when he wrote it." -- Linus Torvalds
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