From: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com>
To: Riley Williams <Riley@Williams.Name>
Cc: Andy Pfiffer <andyp@osdl.org>,
Christophe Saout <christophe@saout.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ext3/lilo/2.5.6[89] (was: [KEXEC][2.5.69] kexec for 2.5.69available)
Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 18:39:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030509223928.GA21887@tsunami.ccur.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BKEGKPICNAKILKJKMHCACEJHCLAA.Riley@Williams.Name>
> One suggestion: ext3 is a journalled version of ext2, so if you can
> boot with whatever is needed to specify that the boot partition is
> to be mounted as ext2 rather than ext3, you can isolate the journal
> system: If the problem's still there in ext2 then the journal is
> not involved, but if the problem vanishes there, it's something to
> do with the journal.
>
> I have to admit that the above sounds very much like the details
> are being recorded in the journal, but the journal isn't being
> played back to update the actual files.
I recall reading on lkml once that an ext3 sync(2) merely pushes volatile
data/metadata out to the journal rather than to to files themselves.
Joe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-09 22:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-09 19:04 [KEXEC][2.5.69] kexec for 2.5.69 available Andy Pfiffer
2003-05-09 20:04 ` ext3/lilo/2.5.6[89] (was: [KEXEC][2.5.69] kexec for 2.5.69 available) Christophe Saout
2003-05-09 20:55 ` Andy Pfiffer
2003-05-09 20:46 ` ext3/lilo/2.5.6[89] (was: [KEXEC][2.5.69] kexec for 2.5.69available) Riley Williams
2003-05-09 22:39 ` Joe Korty [this message]
2003-05-09 23:39 ` Andy Pfiffer
2003-06-11 22:08 ` ext[23]/lilo/2.5.{68,69,70} -- IDE Problem? Andy Pfiffer
2003-06-11 23:21 ` Christophe Saout
2003-06-11 23:40 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-06-12 0:20 ` ext[23]/lilo/2.5.{68,69,70} -- blkdev_put() problem? Andy Pfiffer
2003-06-12 0:29 ` Andrew Morton
2003-06-12 10:42 ` Christophe Saout
2003-06-12 10:54 ` Andrew Morton
2003-06-12 11:12 ` Christophe Saout
2003-06-12 11:24 ` ext[23]/lilo/2.5.{68,69,70} -- strace lilo - freeze Christophe Saout
2003-06-12 12:44 ` ext[23]/lilo/2.5.{68,69,70} -- blkdev_put() problem? Herbert Xu
2003-06-12 17:27 ` Andy Pfiffer
2003-06-12 17:53 ` Andrew Morton
2003-06-12 18:03 ` Andy Pfiffer
2003-06-12 18:10 ` Andrew Morton
2003-06-12 18:53 ` Christophe Saout
2003-06-12 18:25 ` Andy Pfiffer
2003-06-13 8:01 ` Andrew Morton
2003-06-13 9:57 ` Herbert Xu
2003-06-13 14:42 ` Eduardo Pereira Habkost
2003-06-13 17:17 ` Andy Pfiffer
2003-06-13 22:12 ` Unai Garro Arrazola
2003-06-13 22:28 ` Andrew Morton
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