journalling file systems

Kim Holburn kim.holburn at anu.edu.au
Thu Nov 29 15:06:38 EST 2001


At 2:27 PM +1100 29/11/01, <andrew at bishop.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
>On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Bob Edwards wrote:
>
>[...]
>> We also have a couple of workstations set up with RH7.2 with ext3. No
>> problems so far. I believe that ext3 filesystems can be mounted with
>> ext2 after an fsck - but don't quote me - I haven't tried it yet.
>
>ext3 was designed as an extension of ext2 - it's basically an ext2
>filesystem with journalling tacked on.
>
>ext3 filesystems *can* be mounted as ext2, but if they weren't unmounted
>cleanly, it won't use the journal to fix any problems, it'll just do
>normal ext2 fsck stuff.  I don't know much about different journalling
>filesystems, but ext3 isn't a good choice unless you need that
>compatability.

So does that mean that ext3 doesn't handle very large files?

Kim

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