On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 08:12:27 -0600 Jan Depner <eviltwin69@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 07:00, Florian Schmidt wrote: > > On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 20:02:28 -0800 (PST) > > R Parker <rtp405@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > I'm hesitant about returning to ext2 because I've had > > > fsck blow up in my face more than once...guess that's > > > why I rsync to a big IDE HD. I do expect ext2 > > > performance to be perfectly acceptable. > > > > what's wrong with ext3? > > > The hournal is not with the file. This causes problems when the > file is written to. what kind of problems? You mean, because the journal is on another part of the disk, the head has to move a lot while writing? (writing data - updating journal - writing data - updating journal...) flo -- Palimm Palimm! http://affenbande.org/~tapas/