[linux-lvm] snapshots of busy ext2 file system corrupt

[Urs Thuermann]

Chris Mason <mason at suse.com> writes:

> For ext2, the best we could do would probably be a hack based on 
> locking the super.  As far as I know, nobody is planning on this,

:-(

> especially given how easy it is to go from ext2->ext3.

Some performance tests I made with ext2, ext3, and reiserfs convinced
me to stay with ext2.  ext3 was significantly slower than ext2 on some
operations (and reiserfs even worse than that).


urs