Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 23 Nov 2001 21:05:50 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Moving ext3 journal file |
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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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