Re: [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] How reliable is ext3?

[Kevin Chadwick]

>     Therefore Ext2 is a perfect match:
>     * it is so old, that I guess by now most bugs have been found and squashed;
>     * it is so old, that virtually any Linux (or Windows, FreeBSD, or
> most other knows OS's) are able to at least read it;
>     * it is so old, that by now I bet there are countless recovery tools;
>     * it is so simple (compared with others), that someone could just
> re-implement a reader for it, or recovery tools;
>
>     Any feedback about the Ext2 for backups? (Hope I'm not wrong on this one...)

Unexpectedly ext4 is actually rather good for embedded when compared to
JFS etc..

However I have been considering using ext2 on my home partitions
for the very reason you guess upon (it is easily recoverable by
testdisk rather than carving out inodes, in fact ext4 was known to have
this issue but traded it for other benefits when it was designed). I
will have to look into the performance differences but thinking about
it now as my IO is usually net or usb then I can't see it being
relevant.


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