Re: Oops with ext3 journaling

1999-12-08 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Wed, 8 Dec 1999 17:28:49 -0500, "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Never fear, there will be an very easy way to switch back and forth > between ext2 and ext3. A single mount command, or at most a single > tune2fs command, should be all that it takes, no matter how the > jour

Re: Oops with ext3 journaling

1999-12-08 Thread Theodore Y. Ts'o
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 22:52:18 +0100 From: Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > No, and I'm pretty much convinced now that I'll move to having a > private, hidden inode for the journal in the future. Please don't do that. Current way of switching ext2/ext3 is very nice. If some

Re: Oops with ext3 journaling

1999-12-08 Thread Erez Zadok
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Pavel Machek writes: > Hi! > > > No, and I'm pretty much convinced now that I'll move to having a > > private, hidden inode for the journal in the future. > > Please don't do that. Current way of switching ext2/ext3 is very > nice. If someone wants to shoot in the

Re: Oops with ext3 journaling

1999-12-07 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > No, and I'm pretty much convinced now that I'll move to having a > private, hidden inode for the journal in the future. Please don't do that. Current way of switching ext2/ext3 is very nice. If someone wants to shoot in their foot...

Re: Oops with ext3 journaling

1999-12-06 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Sat, 4 Dec 1999 12:11:58 -0700, mike burrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > couldn't you just make a new flag for the inode that journal.dat uses? i'm > guessing using S_IMMUTABLE will cause some problems, but something similar > to that? The immutable flag will work fine: journaling bypas

Re: Oops with ext3 journaling

1999-12-06 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Sat, 4 Dec 1999 08:44:46 -0800 (PST), Brion Vibber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Maybe at least stick a nice big warning in the docs along the lines of > "do not write to your journal file while mounted with journaling on, > you big dummy!" :) Not that I'd do so deliberately of course, but

Re: Oops with ext3 journaling

1999-12-06 Thread Brion Vibber
On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, mike burrell wrote: > couldn't you just make a new flag for the inode that journal.dat uses? i'm > guessing using S_IMMUTABLE will cause some problems, but something similar > to that? I gate immutable a try on a loopbacked test fs and it seems to work fine... No complaints

Re: Oops with ext3 journaling

1999-12-04 Thread mike burrell
Mr. James W. Laferriere ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > Hello All, Not being ext3/journaling savy , I ask this question > Does journal.dat belong in user file area ? Could it not be put > into (a little harder to overwrite) /proc ? Or ... ? Hth, JimL you have to keep it associat

Re: Oops with ext3 journaling

1999-12-04 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello All, Not being ext3/journaling savy , I ask this question Does journal.dat belong in user file area ? Could it not be put into (a little harder to overwrite) /proc ? Or ... ? Hth, JimL On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, Brion Vibber wrote: > On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, Daniel Veillard

Re: Oops with ext3 journaling

1999-12-04 Thread Brion Vibber
On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, Daniel Veillard wrote: > Let me guess, did your copy command avoided overwriting the journal.dat ? > If not it's not surprizing, that's the only way (with soft raid + ext3) > I found to get an oops from ext3. (Sound of head banging against wall... ouch!) Yep, that would d

Re: Oops with ext3 journaling

1999-12-04 Thread Daniel Veillard
> However while copying my /home partition prior to repartitioning a drive, > I got an oops in the journaling code... I had just created a new ~2GB ext2 > partition on hda5 (4k blocks, volume label set, otherwise default options) > using mke2fs 1.18, created a blank 8192000 byte journal.dat file o

Oops with ext3 journaling

1999-12-01 Thread Brion Vibber
I'm running Linux 2.2.13 SMP with Jens Axboe's CD-ROM patch and ext3-0.0.2c (with KDB patch applied but not activated) and have been using journaling on my / and /home partitions for about a week and a half, saving me a good hour or two in fsck times after Quake3-related crashes. :) However whil