On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 01:18, David Benfell wrote:
The advantage arises when you are rebooting and don't need to spend hours fscking a large disk and when you don't lose data. (I upgraded to ext3 over the weekend after I lost my mail filtering configuration to a power failure.)
Let me second this!! I was messing with a new kernel over the weekend, and it wasn't (isn't) so very happy... The only way to re-gain the machine was to hit the "reset" switch. "replaying 8 transactions in 3 seconds" Man, that is **so** much nicer than waiting for a huge-honkin' fsck. I happen to use reiserfs rather than ext3, but either way: journalling is good :-) I also have a 5 year-old. And, we experience a couple of power-failures every year. I would not go back to a non-journalled fs again... -Gord -- Gordon Pritchard, P.Eng., Member IEEE Technical University of B.C. - Research Lab Engineer mailto:gordon.pritchard@techbc.ca direct phone: 604-586-6186