Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 5 Nov 2005 22:48:40 +0100 (CET) | From | Roman Zippel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] hfsplus: don't modify journaled volume |
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Hi,
On Sat, 5 Nov 2005, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> > I would agree with that and further, is that not a bit draconian? > > HFSPlus is designed to work without the journal. Just change the last > > mounted version to FSK! (0x46534b21) and everything will work as expected, > > i.e. fsck will run a check instead of ignoring the volume and osx will > > mount the volume and reinitialize the journal. Remember older OSX > > versions did not support journalling so if you attached your external > > drive to one of those older osx boxes, you would also get non-journalled > > writes to a journalled volume. It's all designed for it... > > And you do not need to be worried about journal reply because you > already do not allow read/write mounts when the volume has not been > unmounted cleanly, so there really is no reason not to allow mounting > a volume with a journal...
Sorry, but I had too many reports about problems with journaled volumes, so I prefer the safe solution, until we can at least replay the journal.
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