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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