Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 08 Dec 1999 12:38:19 +0100 | From | Josef Höök <> | Subject | Re: Ext3 Filesystem |
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<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> "Dr. Michael Weller" wrote: <p> [.. and so on about journal.dat ..] <p> I was under the impression that journal.dat is only intended to get a <br> somehow running system. I mean, what you really want is: have the journal <br> on a separate partition with no filesystem at all. Best of all on a <br> seperate disk (controller, maybe). And you might want to have one journal <br> only for all filesystems. <p>I must disagree on that. If your disk where you've put the journal breaks <br>then you have a long night ahead restoring backups. <br>I can only refer to Aix which has a journal log for every disk, <br>one journal / disk and all filesystems within. <br>That's what i think is right way of implementation. <br>I wonder.. <br>Stephen whatif i remove my journal.dat file what happens then ? <br>Does it rebuilds the log or does it try to restore the filesystem by replaying the empty journal log ?, <br>or does it rebuilds the journal file? <br> <p>regards Joh <pre>-- Code speaks louder than words.
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