From: thorongil@telenet.be   
      
   On 05.08.2021 at 08:57, Henrik Carlqvist scribbled:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   The ext4 driver in the kernel is perfectly capable of handling ext2 and   
   ext3, and is now the preferred driver for those two filesystems, even.   
   The old driver is still available too, but it's deprecated.   
      
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   With respect,   
   = Aragorn =   
      
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