Xfs_repair and journalling -- EXT4 journal replay discussion

Stan Hoeppner stan at hardwarefreak.com
Sat Mar 30 13:52:17 CDT 2013


On 3/30/2013 12:40 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On 3/30/13 7:49 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:

>> Ok, so here's the skinny on the source of our confusion WRT how/when
>> EXT4 replays journals, and it's rather interesting.  Ted Ts'o explained
>> the following.
> 
> Where was this, out of curiosity?

Private email exchange with Ted.  I thought it was best from an
etiquette standpoint not to wholesale paste his two private emails to
the XFS list, but to summarize.  Maybe it would be ok if I put it on my
web server for a couple of days then remove it.

http://www.hardwarefreak.com/ext4-journaling.txt

-- 
Stan



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