Re: Ext3 Filesystem

Albert D. Cahalan (acahalan@cs.uml.edu)
Wed, 8 Dec 1999 01:16:10 -0500 (EST)


Stephen C. Tweedie writes:
> <brion@gizmo.usc.edu> said:

>> I'm not sure how much I like having hidden mysterious things in my
>> filesystems that I can't see... of course if I can't see them, I can't
...
> Yes. You will be able to remove the journal and add a new,
> differently sized on. You will have to have the filesystem unmounted
> to do this, though.
>
>> e2fsck would probably need to be taught not to treat the journal
>> as a lost file too,
>
> There is already a range of inode numbers which e2fsck treats as
> reserved. e2fsck will also have to be taught about journal recovery,

Ext2 does not put inodes or bitmaps in files. Why do this for the log?
Using a file seems inconsistent with the rest of ext2/3.

(a file is natural for NTFS, which puts inodes and bitmaps in files too)

Well, I know this is a retrofit... is that it?

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