speaking of which, I've noticed that kjournald goes defunct when the last ext3 filesystem is unmounted. Why not keep it running? Regards, Tom Bassel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com> To: "Bbbbb Bbbbbc" <avalea@hotmail.com> Cc: <ext3-users@redhat.com> Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 8:49 AM Subject: Re: kjournald & jbd > 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
