[CLUE-Tech] Converting ext2 to ext3

Jeffery C. Cann fabian at jefferycann.com
Sat Jul 20 19:03:00 MDT 2002


On Thursday 18 July 2002 11:54 am, you wrote:
>  I believe the only on-disk difference between 2 and 3 is the journal, and 
> an old ext2 kernel will just ignore the journal, with no ill-effects.  All 
> of the journaling magic must live in the kernel driver.

I think you are correct.  The only difference is the journaling.  Ext3 
filesystem structure is the same as ext2:

 + http://people.spoiled.org/jha/ext3-faq.html

Jeff



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