1¡¢ext2 used to be the most common Linux filesystem 2¡¢ext3 is based on ext2 3¡¢Same on-disk structure 4¡¢ext2 can be converted to ext3 5¡¢ext3 can be mounted as an ext2 file system 6¡¢ext3 is a journaling filesystem£¬Preserves data integrity better than ext2£¬Faster and safer fsck after system crash