[Gllug] Re: RAID on laptop or xfs?

Nix nix at esperi.org.uk
Fri Apr 1 15:47:59 UTC 2005


On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Liam Smit yowled:
> My understanding is that the integrity of the journal itself is not
> that crucial fro the integrity of the filesystem because as soon as
> the journal gets hosed by the drive losing power and the contents of
> the cache dissapearing into the ether, the journal is no longer in a
> postition to write its contents to the rest of the file system.

But, er, when the system restarts and the journal is replayed, the
journal will be written to the FS. That's kind of the point. ;)

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