AFAIK, it can accelerate the recovering process. If a block is in the revoke table of a transaction t1 and t1 is committed, then the there is no need to recover the block in transactions which is earlier than t1. On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Niraj Kulkarni <kulkarniniraj14@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > I am new to fs development. I am trying to modify the journal structure > of JBD. While analyzing the code, I could understand most of the things, but > I am not able to understand the need of revoke mechanism. Can anybody > enlighten me on this issue? > > Regards > Niraj > -- > 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 > -- Best Wishes Yongqiang Yang -- 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
