Re: extended filesystems

Eric Sandeen <[email protected]> Mon, 18 Aug 2014 12:34:57 -0500

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.file-systems.ext3.user
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On 8/18/14, 12:33 PM, Bill Cunningham wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Sandeen" <[email protected]>
> To: "Bill Cunningham" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
> Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2014 4:47 PM
> Subject: Re: extended filesystems
> 
> [snip]
> 
>> So the first thing you've learned is that it is not in fact too much
>> overhead, because it's not there.  ;)
>>
>> -Eric
> 
>    Ok I see. Well I have used fsarchiver to save my ext4 system and the mkfs option to uninstall everything as an ext2 filesystem. Everything uncompress and is written to the block device much more quickly. I know with ext3 there is the journal inode which isn't present on ext2.
> 
>    Well anyway is this list for the entire ext family or just ext3?
> 
> Bill
> 

[email protected] is the list for all of them.  ext3-users isn't used much.

-Eric