Re: Oops with ext3 journaling

Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Mon, 6 Dec 1999 12:01:59 +0000 (GMT)


Hi,

On Sat, 4 Dec 1999 12:11:58 -0700, mike burrell <mikpos@home.com> said:

> 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?

The immutable flag will work fine: journaling bypasses the normal file
write mechanisms, so it will work with an "immutable" journal quite
safely.

--Stephen

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