Ext3 as a default file system
April 3, 2008 by Clair Ching
Filed under Explanation, Geeky Fun
I’ve been wondering why my friends told me to use the ext3 filesystem when I installed Linux. At the time, I didn’t really understand. Why should I choose ext3? And why should you?
ext3 is stable
ext3 is sufficient for most desktop computing needs
ext3 is well-supported
I think that by default, most installaions of distributions use ext3. I guess that people sometimes get tempted to try out other file systems. I asked one of my friends about XFS and Reiser. He pointed out that the Reiser3 file system is deprecated according to its creator. I also …read more
