On Monday 28 February 2005 00:15, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > Roland Dowdeswell wrote: > > [ cc'ing [EMAIL PROTECTED], because there has been talk > > of GBDE there in the past.] > > So what? If the write fails in the middle, reading sector will just > produce garbage. I don't think that it's different from plain old HDD > which has been powered down in the middle of doing disk write. Disk > encryption layer is definitely not the level at which journaling should > be implemented. It's task of file system to do this. The task of > encryption layer is merely to inform the file system when transaction > (i.e. both of those two writes in this case) have been completed > successfully, so that FS can adjust its journal accordingly. > > -Maxim
I could be wrong but I would assume that if it is correctly handled within softupdates there should be no need for journalling - e.g. If both transactions are not completed the writes are ignored _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
