April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
508 pages
15h 22m
English
ext3 adds a journal kept in a regular file on top of the ext2 filesystem. If the journal is empty (which will be the case on a clean server shutdown), you can even open an ext3 filesystem in ext2 mode. It's backward compatible with ext2, and it's possible to convert a volume in either direction: ext2 to ext3, or ext3 to ext2.
There are three levels of journaling available in ext3, specified as options when mounting the filesystem:
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