From: jimmy@none.none   
      
   On 08/05/2021 01:57 AM, Henrik Carlqvist wrote:   
   > On Thu, 05 Aug 2021 00:08:31 +1000, noel wrote:   
   >> Is there any reason youve stuck to ext2?   
   >   
   > I was not the original poster, but still I might give some such reasons   
   > even though I have not tried Slackware-current and suffered any problems   
   > with ext2.   
   >   
   > Ext2 as opposed to ext3 and ext4 does not have journaling. Usually   
   > journaling is a good thing and I use ext4 for my everyday use. However,   
   > when I do backups to hard drives which are intended for "write once,   
   > maybe read a few times" that journaling is not to much use. As such I   
   > have during several years stuck to ext2 for those backups.   
   >   
   > I would not call it a show-stopper, I will still have some older   
   > Slackware installations capable of reading my backups, but it would be a   
   > major disadvantage if the kernel in upcoming Slackware 15 totally crashes   
   > when trying to read such a backup.   
   >   
   > regards Henrik   
      
   ext4 is working great with the new kernels, quiet snappy and ext4 is   
   totally backwards compatible with ext2, what I would suggest is at the   
   first signs of trouble to go to /etc/fstab and change ext2 to ext4 and   
   everything will be the same, meta data and all.   
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   Jimmy Johnson   
      
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