On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 05:03:10PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > well, i guess the first question to ask is, does it make sense to have these > journal options in /etc/fstab ? No, not really. The original intent for journal=update was to update from a V1 journal superblock to the V2 journal superblock. This transition happened in around 2001. It was intended to be used to ask the kernel to do a one-time conversion of the superblock version. There's no real reason to have this in the kernel; it's the sort of thing that is much better done in the userspace tools anyway. p We should probably remove it from the kernel, actually. There might be some really ancient 2.4 systems that still have journals with V1 superblocks, but they are few and far between. In any case, if this was going to be in the kernel, it makes absolutely zero sense for it to be in /etc/fstab. It should only be something that the user manually specifies when first mounting the filesystem, and for that reason it's actually better done in a userspace tool. - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
