From: Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com   
      
   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   
      
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