Stephen writes:
> Just create it empty and tell ext3 which inode it is in, and it will
> initialise it internally on first mount, yes.
I had a quick look at the ext3 code, and I could not find any sort of
check whether the journal was a "valid" file or not. I would hate to
accidentally give "2" or some other inode as the journal, and then ext3
happily overwrites it. Maybe there should be a check that the first
block (or the whole file) is zero-filled (if it is a new journal) or
that there is a magic number at the start.
If this is already in the code and I missed it, please carry on...
Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and a pound of antipasto,
\ would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?"
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ -- Dogbert
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