>> 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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