Re: Oops with ext3 journaling

Theodore Y. Ts'o (tytso@mit.edu)
Wed, 8 Dec 1999 17:28:49 -0500


Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 22:52:18 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>

> 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...

Never fear, there will be an very easy way to switch back and forth
between ext2 and ext3. A single mount command, or at most a single
tune2fs command, should be all that it takes, no matter how the journal
is stored.

- Ted

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