On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 16:53:32 GMT MJ Ray markj@cloaked.freeserve.co.uk wrote:
Keith Watson Keith.Watson@Kewill.com wrote:
- does anyone else use ext3 and, if so, what do you think of it?
I do. It used to be a bit flaky, but the latest stable kernel seems to be fine. One downside is that you can't resize it while it's mounted (at least not when I last tried), so it's not ideal with LVM.
- I'm thinking of converting my existing ext2 partitions to ext3, are
there any circumstances where is isn't worth doing this?
If you don't care about the data? ;-)
- what about other journalling fs's (ReiserFS or XFS for example), are
they any better? and how hard is it to convert from ext2 to one of them?
ReiserFS is better in some situations (I think it's lots of small files, but I can't remember for sure and it's documented out there) and can resize while mounted, but it's a dump-and-restore job to convert an ext2 disk to ReiserFS.
Hope that helps... any hackers want to do a talk on the different filesystem tricks and tools one ALUG? :-)
Well I took the plunge and converted a couple of partitions to ext3 and, as it all seemed to be OK after a week, this last weekend I converted the rest. So far so good.
There's a mini-HowTo on the LDP site that's gives step by step instructions that I can recommend (URL not to hand at the moment).
Keith