On 11 May 2009 21:44, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. My concern was basically if it is safe to skip zeroing for internal journal. Regards, -- Alex -- 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
