Am Mon, 31 Jul 2000 schrieb 1stFlight !:
> can anyone tell me what exactly a journaling filesystem (reiserfs,
> ext3) is supposed to do over what ext2 already does?
Hi Darryl,
the name says it all: a journaling filesystem keeps a record of each and every
transaction acted on the files and in the case of an irreguar termination,
essentially programs not beeing allowed to exit normally due to a reset or a
power-out, replays these transactions on these files, thereby greatly reducing
time otherwise spent for checking filesystem consistency. And these days of
gargantous harddisks, an fschk run can take a long time!
Bye,
Christoph
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