As opposed to reiserfs? We make the switch on the fly, no need to erase all the data, reformat, re-install. It should be very quick to switch an existing system to ext3, assuming you have a kernel with ext3, either built-in, or as modules. From my experience, better built-in then modules. In theory, all you need to do to convert an existing system from ext2 to ext3 is run "tune2fs -j /dev/hdxx", change the fs for that partition to auto in /etc/fstab, and reboot. May not work if your mk_initrd/modules are a bit buggy. Apart from that, I don't have any knowledge as to which is better, safer, faster; ext3 or reiserfs. Could be a six of one, half a dozen of the other for most people. On Sunday, December 23, 2001, at 10:42 AM, Dennis J. Tuchler wrote:
What is the advantage of moving to ext3 (as opposed, say, to reiserfs)?? -- dj tuchler dtuchler@earthlink.net