Hi, On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 12:34:51PM +0000, Bbbbb Bbbbbc wrote: > Could someone please explain to me what is the difference between > kjournald and jbd (precisely, what does each of them do?) jbd is the journaling layer which ext3 uses. One of the things that the jbd layer does is to batch updates to the disk into compound atomic transactions, and those are written to disk in the background. kjournald is the name of the thread that the jbd code creates to perform those background commits. Cheers, Stephen _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users