[Techtalk] Journalling file systems.

[David Merrill]

On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 09:45:24AM +1000, Mary Gardiner wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Well, journalling file systems seem to be all the rage at the moment :)
> and I have to say that I would be grateful not to have to sit through an
> fsck every time a circuit breaker triggers.
> 
> At the moment, I'm using ext2fs and vfat (I'm not intending to drop the
> vfat, my Windows partition would be unhappy... :) )
> 
> I've been exposed to a three way holy war between xfs users, reiserfs
> users and ext3fs users, but not a very informative one.
> 
> I'm looking for a good rundown on their comparitive strengths.

A good article was just posted on Slashdot about journaling
filesystems, the `Advanced Filesystems Implementor's Guide'. See
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-fs.html

It's a six part article. I don't know if more articles are coming.

hth,

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