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   Chris Elvidge to Robert Komar   
   Re: Slackware 15.0 ext2 file system   
   05 Aug 21 16:47:36   
   
   From: chris@mshome.net   
      
   On 05/08/2021 04:15 pm, Robert Komar wrote:   
   > noel  wrote:   
   >>   
   >> Is there any reason youve stuck to ext2?   
   >>   
   >> I admit it took me until just last year to move from ext3 to ext4, my   
   >> earlier attempts to try ext4 were very many years ago when it was new,   
   >> too new, it was unstable, quotas did not work at all, but its matured   
   >> over the years, I'm running production servers on it and not missed a   
   >> beat.   
   >>   
   >   
   > I'm not the OP, but as I said earlier, I'm running slackware on a   
   > netbook from an SD card.  I use ext2 to reduce wear on the card.   
   > If I upgraded to ext4, I would want to disable journalling and   
   > any other feature that does a lot of extra writing to the device.   
   > I'm not sure if that is possible, and it wasn't necessary until   
   > the latest kernel upgrade.   
   >   
   > Cheers,   
   > Rob Komar   
   >   
      
   https://foxutech.com/how-to-disable-enable-journaling/ for example?   
      
   i.e. use  -O ^has_journal   
      
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   Chris Elvidge   
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