Hi There! Ext3 came into the picture from around RH 7.2, and it comes with some Journaling features designed to make your file system recover from crashes better than ext2 did. Because of this journaling, there will be a performance decrease, which is probably what you are experiencing. Jason Dale ----- Original Message ----- From: "JD" <filsuf@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 5:01 AM Subject: Ext3 vs Ext2 > Hallo list, > I have a "feeling" that ext3 is much slower than ext2. My hadrdrive > blinks more often after I let RH8 formatted it with its favorite ext3; > not to mention the noise from the harddrive rotation. > As I said, it's just a "feeling" so please don't flame me for feeling it. > Am I justified anyway? Is it true that ext3 fs is somehow inferior in > practice that ext2? > JD > > > > -- > Psyche-list mailing list > Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
