On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 01:21:33PM -0700, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 08:59:08PM +0200, Michael van Elst wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 11:25:08AM -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> > > 
> > > >True, the journal would be lost.
> > > 
> > > It's not just the journal -- if you can't recover the journal, you  
> > > can't even be sure that the file system is fsck'able.
> > 
> > So how does the rest of the world do it?
> 
> They probably have hooks and steps to cover the problems we're talking 
> about.

My guess is that, at least for Solaris, the journal isn't used
to allow operations that can't be recovered by fsck. The operations
are identical, wether logging is enabled or not.


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                                Michael van Elst
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