Wow! ‘ext3’ really works!

Dave writes, “I’ve been toying with the idea of implementing a journalling filesystem on the Redhatbox.org server for quite a while now. The increased data integrity and speed was strongly appealing, but the thought of patching the hell out of my kernel to reach what was called ‘experimental’ functionality at best made ext3, the successor to the ever popular ext2 filesystem, sound like more trouble than it was worth. Guess who went ahead and did it anyway? 😉 And you know what? It didn’t even take much effort on my behalf, and I’ll show you what I did so that you don’t make some (little) mistakes I did along the way.” Read the rest at RedHatBox.org.