Samuel Sieb: >> The journal has nothing to do with memory management. It's about >> filesystem protection. btrfs would also be better because it is >> always "journaled" (not exactly, but fairly equivalent). Bill Cunningham: > I thought it was involved in "swapping". Like a swap file my bad. File system journalling is about all writing to a drive being done as a sequence (this write, then that update, then the next update). During a crash, hopefully you only lost the last bit of writing, and what was done before that is still there. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.66.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed May 18 16:02:34 UTC 2022 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
