Subject: Re: ext2fs is in the tree
To: Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
From: Manuel BOUYER <bouyer@antioche.ibp.fr>
List: current-users
Date: 06/11/1997 19:21:19
On Jun 11, Michael Richardson wrote
>   Assuming that we do metadata writes, which makes me much happier
> about using ext2fs, when would I use ext2 vs ffs? 
>   Or are they similar enough that I'd just use ext2 to mount a linux
> disk. 
> 

You can. But ext2fs doesn't add any new features (it has in fact for now less
features than ffs), and bad performances, because of the small block size.

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