Subject: Re: Journaling for FFS
To: Jochen Kunz <jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/02/2006 13:45:07
On Oct 2, 2006, at 12:09 PM, Jochen Kunz wrote:

> This is a good point. I didn't think of this. The same for Jorgen
> Lundman's remark about adding jornaling to FFS like a mount option  
> just
> like softdeps.

Doing journaling as a mount option is not as feasible as it sounds.   
You actually need to record "journal enabled" in the superblock  
because it changes how recovery is performed.

-- thorpej