Re: benefits of journaling for soft RAID ?

[Dan Hollis]

On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Feb 1999 09:00:20 +0100, Benno Senoner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
> > can someone please explain what journaling precisely does, (is this
> > a sort of mechanism, which leaves the filesystem in a consistent
> > status, even in case of disk write interruption, due of power loss
> > or other causes ?)
> Exactly.  It keeps a record of in-progress filesystem operations so
> that entire complex operations, such as renames, always complete
> atomically even if you reboot half-way through.  It eliminates the
> need for an fsck at reboot.

I assume the next filesystem (ext3?) will support journaling?
Hope, hope?

-Dan