A good overview of the design of Ext3 and the JBD journaling layer, by the original author, Dr. Stephen C. Tweedie, can be found here: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/sct/ext3/journal-design.ps.gz Some usage notes from Andrew Morton are here: http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/ext3/ext3-usage.html For more information, see Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt Documentation/DocBook/journal-api.tmpl in the Linux kernel source tree. The ext3-user mail list is archived in several places, e.g., Downloadable: http://www.redhat.com/archives/ext3-users/ Searchable: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ext3-users The ext2-devel list also hosts developer discussions regarding ext3: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ext2-devel http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ext2-devel Regards, Bill Rugolsky _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users