Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> On 05/30 04:12 , Michael Stowe wrote:
>> It's generally slower, so I'm going to go with "no" on this one.
> 
>>>From the tests I've seen, ext2 is notably faster than ext3. Not doing
> journaling does make a difference.
> 
> If you wanted to speed up ext3; you can put the journal on a separate device
> (even an SSD). This may make a measurable difference; but I haven't tried it
> myself.

The killer with ext2 is that if you crash you have to do a complete fsck before 
coming back up which will take hours on a large backuppc filesystem.  With ext3 
normally the journal takes care of this.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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