[geeks] Whoo hoo... now this is a nice Linux

[vance at neurotica.com]

On 11 Mar 2003, Gregory Leblanc wrote:

> [snip]
> > I also don't see a reason to make it journaling; a 100 meg partition
> > (or 20 :)  ) is fscked quickly and the journal log only takes up
> > space.
> >
> > Have fun with gentoo :-)
>
> Err, this -is- linux we're talking about here, right?  There are several
> failure modes where ext2 CANNOT be recovered by fsck.  ext3 has a
> limited journal mode of some sort, which allows fsck to actually recover
> data, which is what most folks use.

Can't you just use IBM JFS on Linux now anyway?

Peace...  Sridhar