Re: Oops with ext3 journaling

Erez Zadok (ezk@cs.columbia.edu)
Wed, 8 Dec 1999 10:21:48 -0500 (EST)


In message <19991206225218.D519@bug.ucw.cz>, Pavel Machek writes:
> Hi!
>
> > No, and I'm pretty much convinced now that I'll move to having a
> > private, hidden inode for the journal in the future.
>
> Please don't do that. Current way of switching ext2/ext3 is very
> nice. If someone wants to shoot in their foot...
> Pavel

IMHO, as a long term solution, ext3 should have as few ways to shoot oneself
in the foot as possible. Hackers usually won't do "stupid" things (at least
not unintentionally :-), but hoards of Joe-users will.

> I'm really pavel@ucw.cz. Look at http://195.113.31.123/~pavel. Pavel
> Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please!

Erez.

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