[geeks] Whoo hoo... now this is a nice Linux

[Gregory Leblanc]

On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 19:09, geeks-request at sunhelp.org wrote:
> From: Frank Van Damme <frank.vandamme at student.kuleuven.ac.be>
> To: Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
> Subject: Re: [geeks] Whoo hoo... now this is a nice Linux
> Date: 11 Mar 2003 21:35:41 +0100
> 
[snip]
> I also don't see a reason to make it journaling; a 100 meg partition (or 20 :) 
> ) is fscked quickly and the journal log only takes up space. 
> 
> Have fun with gentoo :-)

Err, this -is- linux we're talking about here, right?  There are several
failure modes where ext2 CANNOT be recovered by fsck.  ext3 has a
limited journal mode of some sort, which allows fsck to actually recover
data, which is what most folks use.
	Greg