[PLUG] when not to use a journaling FS

Jeme A Brelin jeme at brelin.net
Sat Jan 10 21:17:02 UTC 2004


On Sat, 10 Jan 2004, Chris Jantzen wrote:
> > It had nothing to do with performance, it was something that does
> > not work at all.
>
> I doubt that's ever the case. As a filesystem, they present the exact
> same semantics to userspace.

I would imagine that there could be some utilities that depend on
filesystem-specific file attributes, yeah?

That wouldn't preclude using ext3 instead of ext2, however, because, as
far as I know, they share all the same file attributes.

But someone will have to repeat this if Carla's going to read it because
she thinks ignorance is bliss.
J.
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