Redhat choosing Ext3fs for RH7.2

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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