On Wed, 8 Dec 1999 01:16:10 -0500 (EST), "Albert D. Cahalan"
<acahalan@cs.uml.edu> said:
>> 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.
The quota files, on the other hand, are regular files. We don't have
any consistency to worry about here. :)
But either way, using a reserved inode rather than adding new data
structures makes it easier to migrate filesystems between ext2 and
ext3.
--Stephen
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