Messages in this thread | | | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Date | Fri, 3 Mar 2000 18:05:36 +0000 (GMT) | Subject | Re: ext3 status? |
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Hi,
On Fri, 3 Mar 2000 09:20:52 -0700 (MST), Andreas Dilger <adilger@home.com> said:
> I had a quick look at the ext3 code, and I could not find any sort of > check whether the journal was a "valid" file or not. I would hate to > accidentally give "2" or some other inode as the journal, and then ext3 > happily overwrites it.
That's right -- the 1.0 release will use a reserved inode which it will manage automagically, but the current version uses a normal file both to make filesystem migration easier in both directions and to help debugging. Using a reserved inode will eliminate all those potential pitfalls entirely.
--Stephen
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