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Hi, I''m a long ext3 user (rpmfind.net). I propagated ext3 on some of our server box (W3C webservers are ext3 based too now). I might be tempted of testing out your kernel RPMs but unavailability or the source RPM and the SMP version are definite showstoppers. Please provide them. In the meantime I will stick to my own set of kernel ext3 RPMs at ftp://rpmfind.net/pub/veillard/ext3/

got the following in the freshmeat newsletter. the page doesn't say anything about it. also the sct dir on kernel.org still shows the WIP version... [007] - e2fsprogs 1.20 (Default)   by P. Adami (http://freshmeat.net/users/ramirez/)   Monday, May 28th 2001 19:39 The ext2fsprogs package contains essential ext2 filesystem utilities which consists of e2fsck, mke2fs, debugfs, dumpe2fs, tune2fs, and most of the other core ext2 filesystem utilities. Changes: Fixes for minor compilation issues. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/e2fs...

...something more interesting, but I am curious and a little alarmed about a recent event. I am running Linux from Scratch ("LFS"), under a locally compiled Kernel 2.4.20 (SMP). The root filsytem was created as ext2 and converted to ext3 with an external journal about 9 months ago. I have ext2fsprogs v.1.33. Everything has worked perfectly so far, and ext3 has recovered succesfully from several unauthorised shut-downs. I confess that I had given up doing fscks. Last night I had a system lock-up (graphics card issue I think), and had to hit the reset. I noticed that on reboot (which was succ...