[Nottingham] EXT4 no journal

Roger Light roger at atchoo.org
Tue Oct 13 14:01:11 UTC 2009


On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Martin <martin at ml1.co.uk> wrote:

>> i am not sure if these patches are incorporated to mainstream kernel:
>>
>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=0390131ba84fd3f726f9e24fc4553828125700bb
>>
>> but probably you can have a look at them.
>
> Good find. That's long enough ago and with positive enough comments that
> it may well be in present kernels.
>
> So... How do you check what is mainstream or not?

Not exactly a foolproof way to check, but the kernelnewbies synopsis
of what is in each kernel version is a good place to look. I find it a
mostly interesting if not slightly over my head read anyway.

http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_29 mentions the no journal mode for ext4.

Cheers,

Roger



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