[KLUG Members] Redhat 7.2.

[Jim Pharis]

On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Bruce Smith wrote:

> > I am intereted to get Kzoos take on the decision by Redhat to move to
> > ext3. Does 7.2 give you the option of not going to ext3 or does it do it
> > automatically, which would be evil.
>
> Speaking from my experience with the 7.2 _beta_ (haven't tried the
> newly released 7.2 final yet), it gives you the option of ext2 or ext3.
>
> > I have heard alot
> > say that ext3 is nowhere near ready. That there is a serious bug in it
> > and it may need to be totally rewritten. Im not trying to start a flame
> > war just trying to hear some opinions.
>
> Where have you been hearing this?  I haven't heard much either way
> and would like to do some reading.

I heard it dicussed at a LUG meeting. I was just regurgitating what I
heard and hoping I could get some eleberation. The peices I managed to
extract
and remember is that ext3 is not SMP ready. The other was that with a
certain very specific
system configuration there is a bug in which the hd fills up for
no appearent reason.

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> Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
> System Administrator / Network Administrator
> Armstrong International, Inc.
> Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
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Sincerely, Jim Pharis



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