I apologize for this not being strictly Mandrake related, but I found this link off the Newsforge.org site. Its an excellent write up on Journal File Systems. I hope you will enjoy it as much as I have.
http://bulmalug.net/body.phtml?nIdNoticia=1154 Barry
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