6 Sep
2017
6 Sep
'17
4:21 p.m.
On 2017-09-06 10:22 AM, Steve Petrie, P.Eng. via talk wrote:
Rignt on about ext2/3/4. After much research, my design for the linux disk drive partitioning for the desktop PC uses a blend of all three: ext2, ext3, ext4.
There's really no advantage in using anything *but* ext4 out of these: ext2 and ext3 are essentially older, less-journally versions of the same idea. There might be a niche that could favour one of the older ext* FSs, but I haven't found it. And here's me old enough to remember the extfs/xiafs war, too. Not that age adds anything here but an increasing inability to read small print.
DFLY (and HAMMER!) seems to have an enthusiastic (but very small) user base.
Sounds just like BSD, then. /drops mic …