Andreas Dilger wrote: > The reason that the journal is zeroed is because there is some chance > that old (valid at the time) transaction headers and commit blocks might > be in the journal and could accidentally be "recovered" and cause bad > corruption of the filesystem. But I guess the question is, why isn't a normal internal log zeroed? If I'm reading it right only external logs get this treatment, and I think that's what generated the original question from Alexander. -Eric -- 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
