ext3 has different features than ext2. It is a journaling filesystem, and thus much less susceptible to corruption on power failure. But there are some tradeoffs... On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 04:19 +0100, THUFIR HAWAT wrote: > On 4/23/05, Robert Nichols <rnichols42@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > bruce wrote: > [..] > > I fear that any attempt at undeletion is doomed to failure. On an > > ext3 file system, metadata is zeroed when a file is deleted, so > > even if you find the deleted inodes, the lists of block numbers > > won't be there any longer. Yes, I just verified that on an ext3 file > > system. Successful undeletion is possible with ext2, but not with > > ext3. > [..] > > ext3 is "better" than ext2, I assume, because 3>2 ;) > Why, then, does ext2 have a feature ext3 lacks? > > > thanks, > > Thufir >
