On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 12:20:46AM +0530, Kingsly John wrote:
>
> That is the *worst* reason to switch to a journaling filesystem.. they
> don't guarantee anything for powerfailures. .. this is an FAQ for
> Journaling filessystems...
>
That _is_ only one of the reason. That is all :-)
> tools... I'd recommend you to switch to ext3 ... which provides an easy
> migration path and since it's backward compatible to ext2 you also get a
> wider range of data recovery tools/methods.
>
Well, that is what I wanted to know. The pros and cons of shifting to
either reiserfs or ext3. Since in the kernel, ext3 is tagged as
experimental, I am a bit apprehensive.
Can I convert an existing ext2 to ext3 filesystem without any data loss?
> (I personally went through hell when I lost about 1000 odd mails on
> reiserfs. I was lucky that I managed to recover almost all of them.)
>
I can understand.
Regards,
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