-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Yes. You can mount an ext3 system as an ext2 without missing a bit, *EXCEPT* for what is in the journal. If the ext3 partition was not unmounted cleanly, data will be lost.
Ext3 does add overhead, and takes up space on the disk, so there are minimalist reasons for keeping ext2. Whether or not they actually are different source trees and ext2 isn't just a subset of ext3 now as ext3 was just a patch on ext2 in the past, is beyond my knowledge. Curt- On Monday 24 April 2006 16:22, Doofus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > And is it possible (with a simple vfstab edit) to switch off the > ext3 journalling, thereby running it as ext2 with this new and > original code? And if so, is there any performance difference > between the two? Even if there isn't, what I'm thinking is it seems > reasonable to assume the new code is an improvement on the old > (otherwise why bother), so why are two lines of development being > maintained for essentially the same file system? - -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBRE1Jri9Y35yItIgBAQKItgf/RjtnO7YcTyW3FJLKLYfdA3Lg9bWswxQw ym7ZVegkRiPaoL1fMvtVhCLP6LNKqS2fPkMC1fuFJI7Pmsn8/kLFjJsjfp7XRB6Y 3wpURG24dUsRi9+IKBfz6LTe0UbojGsCGMXS4aHILwb82kNTLT3OF+xJH6g0roS9 wLSG8l3k734EIssaey39PBYxmoCMNVTO/e+9Mgn3OqDr+04kN2vFC24UiFsMJ/2R fnOvakML5vGbYw08ZthUwP92sNzFcQGMhJJwm4/vK6VDW2PxwJ9fhPRUybAr6mEJ 1UC1Plv2EdCQ1cuhDABiQ6Gj6dkFnAClaUpBBwuMxhUal14RgHoNCA== =dza7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
