Thomas Davis writes:
> > Why not use Reiserfs? I think journaling is a must with disks that
> > large, and reiserfs is faster dan ext2 if you have a lot of files/dirs
> > in a directory.
> >
>
> Uhm simple.
>
> 1) it's using software raid (note - NOT md). Software raid5 &
> journaling filesystems in v2.2 don't get along.
This is still a problem, unfortunately.
> 3) journaling wasn't available when these large filesystems went online,
> and we wasn't going to reformat just for journaling.
The benefit of ext3 is that you _can_ simply switch from using ext2 to
ext3 (and back, if you want). All you need to do is create a journal
file, and supply the "journal=<inode num>" option at the first boot.
Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and a pound of antipasto,
\ would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?"
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ -- Dogbert
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