Ext3 users - Oct 2002 - Caveats to mounting ext3 as ext2?

I have a partition that is formatted as ext3 however, due to apparent
performance issues (not sure if they are related to journaling -
data=ordered, BTW) I have mounted this file system as ext2.  The file
system was clean when it was shutdown, and has been cleanly mounted as
ext2, and I currently have no problems with the partition.

My question is, is there any harm in mounting this partition as ext2?
Are there any caveats that I should be aware of by mounting in this
fashion?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Regards,
Andy.

Andrew Rechenberg
Infrastructure Team, Sherman Financial Group
arechenberg at shermanfinancialgroup.com

On Oct 29, 2002  14:46 -0500, Rechenberg, Andrew wrote:
> I have a partition that is formatted as ext3 however, due to apparent
> performance issues (not sure if they are related to journaling -
> data=ordered, BTW) I have mounted this file system as ext2.  The file
> system was clean when it was shutdown, and has been cleanly mounted as
> ext2, and I currently have no problems with the partition.
> 
> My question is, is there any harm in mounting this partition as ext2?
> Are there any caveats that I should be aware of by mounting in this
> fashion?
No.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/