I don't see the point in going back to ext2.  Ext3 is just ext2 + 
journal, so you would be changing nothing in the file system, just 
losing the journal.

FWIW I've been using ext3 for around 18 months and despite the 
occasional bad shutdown I've lost nothing.  I see no point in 
changing.

Anne

On Tuesday 12 Aug 2003 7:59 am, Kiran wrote:
> I have had 4 ext3 filesystems just die on me on 3 different
> machines only once was I able to recover by removing the journal,
> fsck'ing and rebuilding it. I won't use it again I'd use
> ext2(probably the same amount of grief in three times the time)
> before ext3. I have however had no problems with reiserfs in the
> last year or so. And that includes alot of unplanned/emergency
> shutdowns/poweroffs/powerlosses etc on both my laptop and desktop.
> YMMV.
>
> > My plan is not to use ReiserFS again, because I see no advantage,
> > ext3 seems to do everything I want certainly everything I need.
> > In that it has never failed any task, even with some
> > extraordinary power outages and outrages. ReiserFS was only used
> > as a trial, and it works well enough.
> >
> > HTH
> > Charlie


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