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#1 2007-06-15 08:17:00

RhoXS
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Registered: 2007-06-14
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EXT2 vs EXT3

While waiting for my new DNS-323 to be delivered I am actually reading the manual. The manual states:

"Ext2 providing better performance and Ext3 providing better support for crash recovery"

To what extent is performance compromised using EXT2 (as compared to EXT3)?

I intend to use a RAID 1 array because I do want to protect the stored files from a hardware failure. What do the words "...support for crash recovery" really mean and what kind of crashes are they referring to (hard drive failure, corrupted files, DNS-232 failure, etc)?

Any insight into this would be very helpful.

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#2 2007-06-15 08:39:01

DNS-323 Talker
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Registered: 2007-05-21
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Re: EXT2 vs EXT3

If you want to use the latest firmware, you have to use EXT2...ext3 was removed as an option, I believe due to stability issues that ext3 had in the previous firmware versions.


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#3 2007-06-15 09:55:46

RhoXS
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Registered: 2007-06-14
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Re: EXT2 vs EXT3

Thanks. Appreciate the fast response. I guess my questions are now just a moot point.

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#4 2007-06-15 23:04:44

ultrabrutal
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Registered: 2007-06-10
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Re: EXT2 vs EXT3

DO NOT USE EXT-3!!!!!!!! I lost 400 GB of data due to D-Link's mess up. Then they removed it in later firmware.    And do not put in an additional disk, it formated my existing one with over 700 gb data....   I have lost over 1.1 TB of data due to the bad software in the DNS...  just a warning

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#5 2007-06-16 12:58:10

mykroft
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Registered: 2007-05-12
Posts: 83

Re: EXT2 vs EXT3

I dont know what happen with your disk upgrade, but I just put a 2nd 500g drive in mine about 5 hrs ago, and it stated it was going to format it and leave the orig alone.  That is exactly what it did and everything was intact.....

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#6 2007-06-16 13:51:59

frodo
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From: Stockholm, Sweden
Registered: 2007-01-17
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Re: EXT2 vs EXT3

Perhaps ultrabrutals issue was caused by having two different sized drives?!

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#7 2007-06-16 15:33:06

fordem
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Registered: 2007-01-26
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Re: EXT2 vs EXT3

Ultrabrutal seems to have just been unlucky - I have an 80 & a 250 in mine - and I frequently remove the 250 and replace it with other drives, a process which of course requires the drive to be formatted, and so far I have not lost the contents of the 80.

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