Re: Journal Free Space

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>]

I'll repost the message I sent when Joe sent his question the first
time... :)

> I'm not sure you're thinking about it quite right, you can't technically
> "overfill" your log.  It's designed so that when it's full, metadata in
> memory is flushed to disk, so that you can use more log space.

-Eric

On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 11:09, Craig Soucie wrote:
> So, if I have a partition that is a certain size and is holding my 
> external journal, I'm cool?  What happens when it fills up, does this hose 
> my fs or is there a mechanism to deal with that?
> 
> Craig

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