On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 11:57:49AM -0700, Mingming Cao wrote: > On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 20:59 -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > > Carlo Wood has demonstrated that it's possible to recover deleted > > files from the journal. Something that will make this easier is if we > > can put the time of the commit into commit block. > > > Sounds good. Added to the patch queue after fix the compile error. > > Shouldn't this a JBD2 INCOMPAT feature? No, because we're just writing some extra data at the end of the commit record. There's no imcompatibility implied, since both the kernel and e2fsck will ignore the extra information. This is the same reasoning used for why we can add new superblock fields without needing new compatibility flags, as long as a default value of 0 does something sane. - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
