Hi,
On Fri, 3 Mar 2000 09:20:52 -0700 (MST), Andreas Dilger
<adilger@home.com> said:
> 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.
That's right -- the 1.0 release will use a reserved inode which it will
manage automagically, but the current version uses a normal file both to
make filesystem migration easier in both directions and to help
debugging. Using a reserved inode will eliminate all those potential
pitfalls entirely.
--Stephen
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