[OpenAFS] ext[23] "testing" (was "Re: Unclean shutdown: AFS client ate my filesystem (ext3)")

Rudolph T Maceyko rtm@cert.org
Wed, 10 Jul 2002 09:56:58 -0400


OK, this is beginning to sound like superstition.  We've been using 
ext3 cache partitions for quite a while now with no ill effects...

--On Wednesday, July 10, 2002 09:45:06 -0400 Derek Atkins 
<warlord@MIT.EDU> wrote:

> This is why the recommendation is two fold:
>         1) use ext2.
>         2) use a separate cache partition.
>
> #1 is because it's been tested and known to work

What extra "testing" has been done for ext2 that has not been done for 
ext3?

Rudy