> I managed to install ext3fs with fai (woody). Excellent!
> The only things to change were to generate a kernel with ext3-support > (2.4.17) for the target machine, set an extra step with 'tune2fs -j' in > setup_harddisks after mke2fs (of course, make-fai-nfsroot), create a script > EXT3 which changes the entries 'ext2' to 'ext3' in the fstab after > installation (cfengine), define this script as a class for the target > computer. A suggestion: use the filesystem type "auto" instead of ext3. At boot, your kernel will pick the appropriate filesystem: ext3 if the fs is capable (already tuned), or ext2 if not. Additionally, you can still use recovery discs that may only support ext2. > Up to now its running without problems. And it seems to be faster than > ext2fs. The relatively more faster the faster the cpu is. Are you certain it's faster? I don't know much about the particulars of how ext3 is implemented, but I was under the impression that a slight performance hit was the tradeoff for journalling. -- ^chewie