Ext3 users - Nov 2000 - I am confused

The beta.redhat.com blurb says that you can easily switch from ext2
to ext3, yet everything I have been told so far from this list says
no, which is it?

Henri

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On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, henris@bga.com wrote:
> The beta.redhat.com blurb says that you can easily switch from ext2
> to ext3, yet everything I have been told so far from this list says
> no, which is it?
I had no problems switching my ext2 root partition to ext3, even though
it turned out to be slightly convoluted.  For non-root partitions just
follow the instructions on beta.redhat.com.

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Sam

On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 08:46:17PM -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> > which would, probably, suffer under load.  From past experience I knew
how
> > to create a largely unfragment journal file:
> >
> > dd if=/dev/zero of=journal.dat bs=20M count=1
>
> Doing such a write all at once will be no different,
> fragmentation-wise, from creating it using 20,000 1k writes.
Every time I install a new kernel, I always do this to rewrite both the
kernel image and the initrd files in /boot.  LILO always ends up loading
the kernel much faster.  The -v -v -v -v option lists the block numbers of
each file.  I can see that afterwards the block numbers are almost always
consecutive, while before they were all over the place.

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Sam