Messages in this thread |  | | From | Andreas Dilger <> | Date | Mon, 17 Sep 2001 10:54:54 -0600 | Subject | Re: Ext3 journal on its own device? |
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On Sep 17, 2001 17:54 +0200, Juan wrote: > I have been browsing the Ext3 source (version 0.0.7a), and it seems > impossible to use a block device as an Ext3 journal. Is that true?.
The code to support this is not included in the 2.2 ext3 only in 2.4 ext3. There was a patch for 2.2 journal devices long ago, but I'm not sure if it was updated to work with the new "format" of the external journal. It was posted to ext2-devel by Marcelo Tossatti, probably 6 months ago or more.
Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and a pound of antipasto, \ would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?" http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ -- Dogbert
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