On 10/14/2007 05:27 PM, Rik van Riel wrote:
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.
... except those that insist -- they get to delete it via "tune2fs -O ^has_journal".
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