[Linux-ha-dev] Hi list!!

Wed, 20 Oct 1999 11:00:24 -0600

On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 05:46:10PM +0100, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
>Yes --- or rather, journaling is one method by which we can make a
>filesystem transactional.

As I understand it, the journaling in ext3 (which is a fantastic
design, BTW), only handles journaling of file-system meta-data,
not of actual file data.  This is a common misconception I've run
into is that it handles the file data as well.

The problem is that in the event of a crash, there's little a file-system
can do to prevent the crashed applications data from being left in an
unknown state.

Sean
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