On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 1:28 AM, Ted Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 10:45:23PM +0300, Amir Goldstein wrote: >> >> Actually, the original paper has no mention of revoke records. >> I went out to look for useful documentation on journal forget/revoke >> and came back empty handed as well. > > Stephen Tweedie gave a talk back in 2000 which covered revoke records. > There's a transcript of his talk here: > > http://olstrans.sourceforge.net/release/OLS2000-ext3/OLS2000-ext3.html > > The link to the audio file of the talk is dead, but I managed to find > a copy of the mp3 file on Google. To make sure it doesn't get lost > I've made a copy of it. The original and the copy can be found at: > > http://ftp.gnumonks.org/pub/congress-talks/ols2000/high/cd1/2000-07-20_15-05-22_A_64.mp3 > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tytso/presentations/2000-07-20_15-05-22_A_64.mp3 > > - Ted > Thanks for that! It was an interesting read, a little piece of history for me. Clearly, at the time of this talk, revoke code was still on the design table and committed_data is not mentioned, so either it was not introduced yet or just wasn't in the scope of the talk. Amir. -- 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