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Ext3 is Ext2 with journeling tacked on.

Posted by: Anonymous Coward on October 14, 2006 06:42 AM

"This Ext3 has a history of not requiring reformats to accomplish an upgrade,..."

IS TOTAL BULLS**T.

The reason you don't need to reformat is because Ext3 is Ext2 with journeling tacked on.

You had to reformat to go from ext1 to ext2, and you will have to reformat to go from ext3 to ext4 (unless ext4 has no interesting new features).

And anyway, who cares if one has to reformat. I have NEVER upgraded a file-system without reformatting. Reformatting is no big deal.

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