On Sunday 09 December 2001 0:40 am, Collins Richey wrote:
> What kind of a backup?  If you're doing a logical backup (cp -a or
> some kind of tar), you won't even be aware of the journals.  If you're
> doing some sort of an image copy of an active filesystem, even without
> journaling, I would think that would be bad news.  Also you can use an
> external journal in a separate fs with ext3.

To tape?   Question is, what happens when  you restore  (perhaps from a 
backup system) and then boot the ext3 root.   I suppose it all works fine.

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