On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 10:08:46 +0200 "Ian Brown" <ianbrn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hell, > According to "undestanding the Linux Kernel, (section 18.7), (Oreilly) > > "The Ext3 journal is usually stored in a hidden file named .journal > located in the root directory of the filesystem. ". Nowadays the journal file is a special inode that no longer has any name at all. Having the journal file have a name was common when ext3 was new and sometimes people needed to delete the journal to recover from strange filesystem problems. Ext3 is so reliable now that it is better to not give people the chance of messing up their filesystem by deleting the journal. -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
