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SubjectRe: Ext3 filesystem info?
Hi,

On Thu, 16 Sep 1999 15:18:44 -0400, "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
said:

> There is a 0.01 release which came out 1-2 weeks ago. It was against
> 2.2.2, and has bugs which have since been fixed. I imagine that Stephen
> will be releasing a new version fairly shortly.

0.0.2 over the weekend is the plan. I've fixed all of the known bugs
except for one, but that one requires a bit of a reworking of how I
track committed buffers which are still needed by the transaction code.
Once that is done I expect to have a version which is pretty stable
against the 2.2.2 kernel. I already have a 2.2.12 version of the 0.0.1
code done so merging the 2.2.2 fixes into the 2.2.12 stream should not
be hard.

> So the good news is that most of the code has been written but we still
> need to do some bugfixing (and bug finding) before it will be completely
> production ready.

Currently the released journaling code journals everything, including
data. That is deliberate: journaling metadata only turns out to be
_lots_ more complex (hint---what happens if you delete a block of
metadata and reallocate it as data or vice-versa), so although all of
the necessary support is there in the journaling layers, the released
ext3 code does not do metadata-only journaling yet.

Once people have had a chance to thrash out any bugs left in the 0.0.2
code, I'll enable the metadata-only journaling and we can all watch the
pretty fireworks as filesystems all over the planet explode in a curious
and interesting manner...

--Stephen


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