Fwd: Reiser FS or ext3?

[Justin Dugger]

Forwarded because I don't pay attention to reply-tos until it's too late.

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On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 1:26 PM, gary hildebrand <wa7kkp at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a couple older distros of SuSE -- 6.4 & 7.2 and was wondering if
> there is an easy way to do it with a journaling FS?  Whenever I'd get a
> hit/crash in ext2, it would sorta eat itself up, and then over a period of
> time, become unuseable.   6.4 has a wide variety of packages no longer
> available on the new distros, and I'd like to have a drive set up so I can
> boot it when wanted.

Journaling filesystems provide a few main features: fast fsck, data
integrity and fast writes.  Ext3 is the only FS I know of that allows
full data journaling. The rest just journal metadata. Inodes, indirect
blocks are write journaled, but the data itself isn't in reiser and
XFS.  I'm not even sure it's the default in ext3, but I know you can
retune ext3 for full data.  As for old SuSE kernels, I'm not sure
whether they have ext3 in the kernel, or if you'll have to build it
yourself.

I'm a bit curious, what does SuSE 6.4 have that's no longer available?

Justin Dugger