On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Brian wrote: > I'm in the process of re-arranging my disk partitons and I want to start > moving stuff to a journaling file system. I realize I'm starting a holy > war here, but I'm pretty well sold on ReiserFS. Are there any real > advantages to using a different FS (xfs, jfs, ext3, etc)? The only reason > I'm moving to a journaling file system is because ext2 sucks. One advantage of ext3 is that it's fully backwards compatible. I just converted my laptop to ext3 on 2.4.9, booted into a 2.2.18 kernel, and everyhing still worked fine. -- Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500