On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 07:06:37 +0530, Dibyayan Chakraborty said: > I am obviously one step closer to implementing the journaling in file > system. But i didn't et the following things. > > What would be the correct sequence of steps in implementing it? That will depend on how *your* file system implements journalling. The correct sequence of steps for ext4 to do journaling is different from how btrfs does its transaction journal. In general, the tricky part is that after you log to the journal, you still have to apply the updates to the filesystem - and do so in such a way that if the system crashes while updating, you can always look at the filesystem and the journal, and find a way to replay or rollback to put the filesystem back to a consistent state. And there's *plenty* of corner cases to deal with. For instance, log a file allocation to the journal, then update the filesystem - but then die before you can flag the journal entry as "written to filesystem". You need to detect that it's a replay of an already done event, and do something about it. The *real* fun is trying to distinguish between "written to disk but not removed from journal" and "90% updated to disk but not removed from journal" :)
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