The Case of the Missing Filesystem.
So my laptop has some “issues” with the Linux APM stuff and spontaneously crashes once in a while, which kinda sucks because it just smashes all the files that I’m working with (and with KDE loaded a lot of open files are screwed). So I went looking for ext3 to cut down on the long boot-up times…
…And to my surprise couldn’t find it. Oh I found it at the Redhat site - RPMs only, linked into their version of the kernel with all of their patches on it. But no diffs or anything like that. Hell, even the utilities for managing ext3 filesystems are all in RPM format. What gives? I mean, I’d switch to XFS/JFS but my drive is already ext2 and an easy migration would be sweet.