i'm experimenting a lot with frugal install. everything works fine, but i'm asking myself: what is the reason for formatting the harddisk with an ext2 filesystem instead of using ext3 or reiserfs? i know that i read a posting or a comment explaining it, but i can't find the damn thing again. anyone who can tell me?
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markit all depends on your machine. ext2 is recommended for older slower systems. thats why i use it......
torp
Quote (torp @ Mar. 02 2006,14:31)
it all depends on your machine. ext2 is recommended for older slower systems. thats why i use it......
torp
hi torp.
thanks for your answer. ext2 is used for older machines.... hmm i see. and that's all? that's the only reason? no "it has to be used because... this and that..." i thought i read a posting that said ext2 is a "must-use". well, to be honest, i've never tried to use anoter filesystem so far.
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markDSL is mainly a liveCD or compressed installed system. We do not require a hard disk. Those other filesystems are journalizing file systems, i.e., the constantly write a journal which could be used to backup/protect the disk writes. So, without a hard disk where would the journal be written. We already seen many systems don't have much memory or inodes and writing to memory would be useless anyway, writing to flash would quickly kill the flash device. Bottom line, DSL is built as a nodmaic OS that does not depend on physcial hard drives.I think you did read that ext2 is a "must-use". DSL won't boot from reiserfs (at least frugal won't), and if it's on ext3 the device will be mounted as ext2. This doesn't mean it can't use these other filesystems...reiser partitions can be mounted into the system after a successful boot (for a persistent home, for example).Next Page...
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