On Saturday 08 December 2001 23:25 pm, Jerry McBride wrote: > While watching S. King's IT on tv. tonight... with the wifey ofcourse... I > upgraded my laptop to use ext3. > > Once installed, I did a couple of tests... namely... I removed the battery > and then unplugged the wall adpater from the laptop... while in the middle > of a compile session... > > Upon reboot, it was proclamed that the root system had to be.... I think it > said "re-journaled"... anyway... an eye blink later I had my laptop back > and ready for use! Amazing! I did this a COUPLE of times and each time the > filesystem check was less than a second or two and this was on a 12gig file > system! The same fsck on a 12gig ext2 would last forever... > > I'm royally impressed! > > And the movie stunk... > > Cheers all and goodnight.
I'm impressed too but I wonder what the effects are on backups, etc. And can ext3 be 'backed-off' at any point? If you take a 'fuzzy' (backup while system is in motion) what happens when you restore? If you boot a backup system can the root of the ext3 system be accessed? Not expecting you to answer all these... maybe someone can chime in. (or point to a source of information on ext3) -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bellaire, MI 12/09/01 00:26 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "Some people are like a callus; they always show up when the work is finished." _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
