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From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
Subject: Re: 3.6.25 - Journal replayed back to 3 weeks ago
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 12:56:08 -0500
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On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 11:33, Neil Robinson wrote:

> > Ok, please tell me more about the vmware setup.  Is are the vmware
> > drives configured to do copy on write?
> 
> According to the documentation, changes made to the virtual drives are
> committed to the physical drive immediately. Here is the salient info
> from the dmesg:

vmware has a mode where the changes are written to a log file instead of
to the main file.  The client doesn't see things are split between two
files, since vmware exports them as a single device.  This allows you to
do fancy things like roll back changes, or share a base file between two
hosts and have changes to into private files.

It's possible that you're in this mode and somehow lost a log file.

Are the virtual drives being exported to linux real block devices in
windows, or are the files on some windows filesystem?

-chris