I'll try to keep this short (yeah right! ;-). Being primarily a user, I find myself bitching, analyzing and complaining about things I don't stop to understand half the time. I've done more than may share in this regard the various filesystems over the years. I've done a few LUG and tradeshow presentations over the past year, trying to inform different peer admins what Linux JFS is best for what applications, probably getting a few facts incorrect along the way, but not anymore than someone who has only used 1 JFS (like my favorite, the "ReiserFS absolutist" ;-). I'm glad to see Ext3 gaining widespread support from kernel to distros releases. I've never had a Ext2 filesystem loss in Linux since I started using it in late 1993, nor Ext3 since using it first in early 2000. I cannot say the same thing about NTFS since I started using NT about the same time (circa 1993). I've even had several major physical disk errors on Ext2/Ext3 that ext2fs has _always_ walked away from with a clean volume. I've also seen several people now completely lose ReiserFS volumes when running the recovery tools when prompted to do so. To this day, I continue to be vastly impressed with the development and proven stability of Ext2/Ext3. I've always loved Ext3 because of its use of the proven Ext2 recovery tools. And I'm even more impressed with more recent its performance and feature-support improvements in the 2.4 kernel. Most of them have made my reasons for running XFS anymore moot. Although I'm glad to see choice is still the best reason about Linux, and Ext2/Ext3 continues to thrive in that atmosphere. Thanx to all for continuing to making Ext2/Ext3 and, therefore, Linux great! -- Bryan Known Ext3/XFS "bigot" -- Bryan J. Smith, Engineer mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org AbsoluteValue Systems, Inc. http://www.linux-wlan.org SmithConcepts, Inc. http://www.SmithConcepts.com
