On Sat, 4 Dec 1999 08:44:46 -0800 (PST), Brion Vibber
<brion@gizmo.usc.edu> said:
> Maybe at least stick a nice big warning in the docs along the lines of
> "do not write to your journal file while mounted with journaling on,
> you big dummy!" :) Not that I'd do so deliberately of course, but it
> might make people a little more wary later on. The README does
> recommend setting the permissions to 400, but that doesn't protect
> from root of course.
"chattr +i journal.dat" will protect even from root.
> Is there any reason you _would_ want to be able to write to the journal
> file from userland while mounted? I'd guess no...
No, and I'm pretty much convinced now that I'll move to having a
private, hidden inode for the journal in the future.
--Stephen
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