On 24 Aug 2001, Nathan England wrote:

> As long as your kernel supports it, build the kernel and then run
> tune2fs -j and that will create the journal..  If it's mounted it will
> still work, you'll just get a cool .journal file while it's doing it.
> Once it runs, took about 5 seconds, then change fstab to match ext3 and
> reboot.  That's all.
>
> Be sure and test tune2fs and make sure it has the -j option, if it
> doesn't you'll have to update your ext2utils.

And if the kernel doesn't have the ext3 option? Any idea what happens?
I have a feeling that mine doesn't, it wouldn't boot right after running
tune2fs -j /dev/hda5 and editing /etc/fstab, I had to re-edit fstab for it
to boot. So maybe the question is..did the stock kernel shipping with RH
7.1 support ext3 out of the box?
Patrick


>
> nathan
>
>
> On 24 Aug 2001 08:13:18 -0700, foodog wrote:
> > Nathan, where'd you find docs on upgrading to ext3 (or how'd you do
> > it)?  I have Roswell running and would like to give it a try.  Thanks,
> > Steve
> >
> > Nathan England wrote:
> > >
> > > I have a 15gb partition with ext2 and after I read that article I tried
> > > to upgrade to ext3.  It is very painless, and seems to work flawlessly.
> > > I myself only use reiserfs, but I thought it worth an attempt.
> > >
> > > I have compiled 7 kernels and other stuff, while running a heavy
> > > database on the system, and just hit the powerswitch about 9 times, and
> > > it comes back each time.  The longest its's taken so far to read the
> > > journal and update is (to my best sense) about .5 a second..  So it's
> > > pretty good.  I'm not running a system like that, but it's a PIII 660E
> > > with 384 mb ram, so it's almost close!!! but slack 8 on it, and a web
> > > server, mysql, ldap, smb, and a few other databases... sap, a test
> > > version of oracle, db3.  And I've been beating the hell out of it since
> > > then.  It's working for me!!!
> > >
> > > Still like Reiser though, but that's cuz I'm used to it, tried and true.
> > > But in an environment where I couldn't wipe the drive and start over, or
> > > a back up would be too much, ext3 was as easy as it gets to upgrade to.
> > >
> > > nathan
> > >
> > > On 23 Aug 2001 21:37:08 -0700, Kevin Brown wrote:
> > > > I caught this link on Slashdot the other day and (not to start a flame war) was
> > > > wondering what people thought of ext3fs for large drives.
> > > >
> > > > http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-08-22-004-20-NW-RH
> > > >
> > > > The reason I'm asking is that my company is looking to get a new server with 4
> > > > 73GB Ultra3 SCSI drives.  This will be a replacement/add-on server in the server
> > > > room running Linux as a database/web machine.  We have a Quad PII450 Xeon
> > > > running RH6.2 and it can take quite a long time to fsck the 60GB of current
> > > > space that it has when it boots up from something bad (Can't recall this ever
> > > > happening while I've been there).
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