On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 14:40, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 02:23:01PM +0200, Diego SANTA CRUZ wrote: > > > Interesting point! > > > > How is this affected if there are several ext3 filesystems mounted? Can > > all journals be resident in memory at a time? > > The journal is NOT in memory. That would make little sense in case of > a crash, would it? > Of course the journal is not *only* in memory and is always written to disk, but it could very well be that an image of it is in memory. At least I would expect that an equivalent representation for part of the journal is resident in memory to speed things up. Diego -- ------------------------------------------------------- Diego Santa Cruz PhD. student Publications available at http://ltswww.epfl.ch/~dsanta Signal Processing Institute (ITS) -- formerly LTS Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) EPFL - STI - ITS, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland E-mail: Diego.SantaCruz@epfl.ch Phone: +41 - 21 - 693 26 57 Fax: +41 - 21 - 693 76 00 -------------------------------------------------------
