[ale] ext3

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On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 07:00:00PM -0700, Stephen Turner wrote:
> the ext3 or jurnaling file system.. its faster?
> better? i have not heard of it, is it worth while?

A journalling filesystem is by definition slower than a non-journalling
filesystem, because the same data is written multiple times.  (first to
the journal, then to the actual filesystem)

Basically, journalling filesystems trade speed for consistency and
crash-recoverability.

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