[KLUG Members] Redhat 7.2.

[Adam Tauno Williams]

>>The peices I managed to extract and remember is that ext3 is not
>>SMP ready.
>Under kernel 2.4, the Ext2 and Ext3 codebases are the same.  So any
>"bugs" in Ext3 also affect Ext2.
>Under kernel 2.2, Ext3 is implemented much differently.  Very early
>Ext3 kernels (e.g., 0.0.2f) worked flawlessly for me, as they were
>little more than a "double buffer".
>Probably Ext3's biggest strength is the fact that if the code
>detects _any_ problem with the journal, it drops down to a full Ext2
>fsck.  I like Ext3's conservative nature in that regard, as well as
>the near-instant reversability back to Ext2.

My beef with ext2 is that it doesn't really solve any problems.  ext2 is
horribly slow in large directories,  ext3 does not address this problem.  And
still no ACL support (the traditional UNIX permission bits just don't but it
anymore).

You can tell users to make "deep" directory structures till your blue in the
face,  98% of them will just toss all their crap in their home directory.  Then
when they list the files (or view it in windows explorer) they will wonder why
it always hesitates so long.

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