On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 07:28:05PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > I'm trying to figure out how stable the ex3fs currently is. I'm > Yes, ext3 goes to great lengths to keep your data safe. All of my data is > on it, and ext2 only lives long enough to install a new kernel after dist install > (with ext3 :) THX! I've dared to switch completely over to ext3 now, after creating a backup of /home on a spare partition. (My 4 GB DAT Streamer is running at the edge of its capacity, so I better keep this additional backup in the background.) Can it be that ext3 is considerably faster than ext2 in accessing large amounts of files in a directory? I've collected about 32000 mails (i. e. files because I'm using maildir) from the list in my debian-users folder. When switching into that folder, mutt reads the headers (or whatever) from the mails; when switching off the folder, it updates the mails. With ext2, this took quite long, but with ext3 it seems to be much faster :) How comes? GH -- Logic is nothing more than a twist in itself :)
