Re: [MiNT] ext3/ext4

[Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>]

On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 15:14:00 , Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk> wrote:
> On 07/17/11 14:31, Peter Slegg wrote:
> > http://sparemint.org/mailinglist/Mailing-Lists/MiNT-List.201005/001fcfa3.0180b2623b0e@smtp.freeola.net.text
> >
> > Picking up a thread from last year, has anyone any experience of the ext2.xfs code ?
> >
> > I am getting a bit irritated by the long fs checks if there is a bad shutdown or
> > other problem. Having ext3 journaling would eliminate the need for the check and
> > allegendly ext3 is faster.
> >
> It's some work to add ext3 support, but it's certainly not too bad. The
> jbd layer in linux could be brought across for the journaling and our
> ext2 updated to handle it.
>
> Alan.

I don't imagine it will be easy, no doubt there are more changes than just
adding the journalling but it is the logical way forward and discs aren't
getting smaller.

Regards,

Peter