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DateFri, 23 Nov 2001 21:05:50 -0800
From"H. Peter Anvin" <>
SubjectRe: Moving ext3 journal file
Andreas Dilger wrote:

> 
> Actually, unless users are actively trying to shoot themselves in the
> foot, none of this really matters.  However, now that ext3 is in the
> mainline, the number of users playing with guns has increased a large
> amount, it seems, by the number of such reports on ext3-users.
> 
> Because .journal is created as immutable, even if it was backed up and
> tried to be restored, it would be impossible to write to.  For the
> "accursed" ext2 dump, it recognizes the "nodump" flag, but also knows
> enough not to back up the journal file.  Sadly, neither cpio or tar
> know about ext2 attributes.
> 


Nor scp, nor rsync, nor find, nor...

	-hpa


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