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SubjectRe: ext3/lilo/2.5.6[89] (was: [KEXEC][2.5.69] kexec for 2.5.69available)
> One suggestion: ext3 is a journalled version of ext2, so if you can
> boot with whatever is needed to specify that the boot partition is
> to be mounted as ext2 rather than ext3, you can isolate the journal
> system: If the problem's still there in ext2 then the journal is
> not involved, but if the problem vanishes there, it's something to
> do with the journal.
>
> I have to admit that the above sounds very much like the details
> are being recorded in the journal, but the journal isn't being
> played back to update the actual files.

I recall reading on lkml once that an ext3 sync(2) merely pushes volatile
data/metadata out to the journal rather than to to files themselves.

Joe
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