Hi, On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 17:42, abhishek patel wrote: > Hi all . Can anyone tell me what are the other advantages of using > ext3 over ext2 other than fast fast recovery on crashes ext3 was designed to be a minimal change to ext2, offering journaling for fast recovery but no other new features. ext3 therefore has largely the same features as ext2: things like ACLs in the 2.6 ext2 tree are in ext3 too. The only other things I can think of that mark ext3 out over ext2 are that the ext3 default ordered journaling mode provides guarantees against seeing "stale" data in a file after a crash; and that the "htree" fast directory indexing code in 2.6's ext3 is not in ext2. Cheers, Stephen _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users