On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 06:30:29PM +0300, Marc A. Volovic wrote: > On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 18:15 +0300, Omer Zak wrote: > > > They solve it by journalling the changes which were made to the file > > since the last backup. So if you lose the original file, you can > > recover it by retrieving the backup and re-applying to it the changes > > listed in the journal file. > > Au contraire! > > ReiserFS, ext3, XFS and JFS journal METADATA! What the gentleman is > looking to journal is the data.
ext3 can do "journal=data" (what you would expect) and "journal=ordered" (almost as safe as journal=data and almost as fast as journal=metadata. I don't understand the voodoo involved.) Cheers, Muli -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org | http://mulix.livejournal.com/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
