I'm not complaining here, but I have noticed a performance lag while using ext3. I have two hard drives, both Western Digital. One is used as my system drive (40G, 7200rpm, ext3) the other is used for storing archives (60G, 5400rpm, ext2). When I run hdparm -t /dev/hda(40G), I get average results of about 16.5 MB/sec., the same test on /dev/hdb(60G), the results are about 23.0 Mb/sec. For a slower drive, I should not be getting faster read times.
I do however like the recovery aspects of ext3. After a power failure, or system crash, I don't have to worry about waiting through 10-15 minutes of fsck to be up and running again. Not to mention not having to worry so much about data loss. I guess it all depends on what you are using the system for. If it is a production system, I would probably stick with ext2. For a home computer, there is no reason not to use ext3. After all, it is under development and can only get better.(right?) -Mike On Wed, 2002-01-02 at 19:27, Jared Brick wrote: > > > Despite the fact that people say that ext3 is good enough for production > > use, you can't ignore the dozens and dozens of complaints people make > > about it constantly. In all honesty, ext3 is still under development as > > are most journalling filesystems. I wouldn't use it, say, for the root > > partition, but I might for a lesser important one... just until you get > > the hang of it and until ext3 is well enough developed to the point where > > the complaints stop :) > > What complaints? On /.? Your opinion is entirely unsubstantiated. I have > not heard of anyone actually having a problem with ext3. Use it, it > works fine. In fact it works better than fine since you won't be waiting > for your system to boot up. > > Jared > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
