Re: tlug: Journaling Filesystems

[Jim Tittsler <jwt-tlug@example.com>]

On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 05:27:23PM -0700, Jim Schweizer wrote:
> like STREAMS and XFS (speaking of which - what do they mean by
> journaled? It showed up on the Linux-Future mailing list wish list.) 

It is logically equivalent to a database update log.  By keeping track
of disk operations, you would be able to recreate the disk meta-data state
(like i-nodes, bitmaps, allocations) in the event of a crash by following
the steps in the "journal."

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Jim Tittsler, Tokyo   ICQ: 5981586

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