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Journaling for ext2 filesystems: ext3

 
  • ext3 is essentially an ext2 filesystem that uses a journal for file transaction atomicity

  • ext3 filesystems can be created natively or easily converted from ext2

  • ext3 has three journaling modes:

    • ordered - the default, journals only meta-data
    • journaled - journals data as well as meta-data
    • writeback - journal updates are not atomic, but gives better performance at possible expense of data integrity