Stupid, question. I thought that reiser4 had no journal, it is transactional. If that's the case, why this option in debug.reiser4 :
Usage: /sbin/debugfs.reiser4 [ options ] FILE Print options: -j, --print-journal prints journal. On Monday 15 August 2005 07:58 am, Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote: > Hello > > Payal Rathod wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 04:25:37PM +0400, Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote: > >>Each journaling filesystem keeps its journal by its own way. > >>In reiserfs by default journal is kept in statically pre-allocated on > >> mkfs time 8192 blocks (4096 bytes each) starting from 18-th block. > > > > Is it kept in some sort of file? > > No. That area of filesystem does not belong to any files stored on that > filesystem. You can read it from device directly: dd if=/dev/hda1 bs=4096 > count=8192. I am not sure that it can be of any interest, because you will > see just binary data. > > I mean can I see the file contents > > > using normal UNIX tools? If yes how do I do it? > > You can use > debugreiserfs -j /dev/hda1 /dev/hda1 > to see journal content. This will decode binary data into human readable > form. > > > With warm regards, > > -Payal -- Pat Double, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth."
