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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Sat, 13 Dec 2003, Day Brown wrote:

> Well, what's the advantage of ext3 anyway?

It's a semi-journalled version of ext2.  Not sure exactly what
makes a "journaling" filesystem different, but I understand they're less
susceptible to filesystem corruption.  About the only other potentially
pertinent thing I could say on this topic is that I understand ext3
differs from other journalled/journaling filesystems in that its really an
unjournalled filesystem (ext2) with a "journalling layer" added.  Other
journalling filesystems (e.g., reiserfs) were created to be journaling
from the start.  Can anyone else help clarify this matter that I
understand only vaguely?

James