journalling file systems

andrew at bishop.dropbear.id.au andrew at bishop.dropbear.id.au
Thu Nov 29 15:08:15 EST 2001


On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Matthew Hawkins wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, andrew at bishop.dropbear.id.au wrote:
> > I don't know much about different journalling filesystems, but ext3
> > isn't a good choice unless you need that compatability.
>
> Any particular reason?  As far as I know, its the only one that
> currently supports full data journaling so it might be the only choice
> depending on your application.

http://www.linuxworld.com/site-stories/2001/1120.filesystem.html
is a good comparison.  I don't need data journalling (which isn't the
default anyway, and slows things down a lot).

Andrew





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