[KLUG Members] Re: Laptop reiser corruption and fixing it

Michael W. Holdeman members@kalamazoolinux.org
Tue, 29 Jan 2002 12:30:13 -0500


Interesting. I will consider this approach (ext2/, and ext3 else)
Although all my systems are /boot as a seperate partition I should also 
include /boot as ext2?

Mike

On Monday 28 January 2002 13:39, you wrote:
> "Michael W. Holdeman" wrote:
> > I'm getting ready to set-up. I think the old EXT2 will
> > probably win out.
>
> I hope you know Ext2 and Ext3 are developed in the same project,
> under the same man, Stephen Tweedie (of RedHat).  Much of the
> codebase is exactly the same, especially in the 2.4 kernel.
>
> Ext2 is not only instantly upgradable to Ext3, but Ext3 can be
> converted back to Ext2 almost as quickly.
>
> -- Bryan
>
> P.S.  I usually make my root (/) filesystem Ext2 so I can always
> boot with any kernel or recovery disk.  Other than that though, I
> use Ext3 or XFS.