Re: Oops with ext3 journaling

mike burrell (mikpos@home.com)
Sat, 4 Dec 1999 12:11:58 -0700

Mr. James W. Laferriere (babydr@baby-dragons.com) said:
> Hello All, Not being ext3/journaling savy , I ask this question
> Does journal.dat belong in user file area ? Could it not be put
> into (a little harder to overwrite) /proc ? Or ... ? Hth, JimL

you have to keep it associated with the filesystem, though. what if you
have a bunch of ext3 partitions on a bunch of partitions, are you going to
have /proc/dev/hda1, /proc/dev/sda3, /proc/tmp/loop_back.img??

couldn't you just make a new flag for the inode that journal.dat uses? i'm
guessing using S_IMMUTABLE will cause some problems, but something similar
to that?

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