Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 18 Sep 2001 11:28:29 +0100 | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Subject | Re: Ext3 journal on its own device? |
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Hi,
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 05:54:40PM +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?.
In the 2.2 code (ext3-0.0.7a), the journal has to be part of the filesystem. The current e2fsprogs and 2.4 ext3 code (ext3-0.9.9) does support journals on other devices, but there's more support to be added before it's truly complete (in particular we want to support several filesystems journaling to a single shared journal spool.)
The separate-journal-disk code hasn't been tested as much as the default journal-on-main-filesystem code, and it's not officially supported, so the format might change in the future. But it should work.
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