i just did a rm -rf /*r as root!!!

[Peter C. Buechler]

ext3 has different features than ext2. It is a journaling filesystem,
and thus much less susceptible to corruption on power failure. But there
are some tradeoffs...
 
On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 04:19 +0100, THUFIR HAWAT wrote:
> On 4/23/05, Robert Nichols <rnichols42 at comcast.net> wrote:
> > bruce wrote:
> [..]
> > I fear that any attempt at undeletion is doomed to failure.  On an 
> > ext3 file system, metadata is zeroed when a file is deleted, so 
> > even if you find the deleted inodes, the lists of block numbers 
> > won't be there any longer.  Yes, I just verified that on an ext3 file 
> > system.  Successful undeletion is possible with ext2, but not with 
> > ext3.
> [..]
> 
> ext3 is "better" than ext2, I assume, because 3>2 ;)
> Why, then, does ext2 have a feature ext3 lacks?
> 
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Thufir
>