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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolabs.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Moving ext3 journal file
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 21:05:50 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BFF2AAE.7000000@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E167Fuw-00001K-00@DervishD> <20011123155901.C1308@lynx.no> <9tmocg$jfn$1@cesium.transmeta.com> <20011123174120.Q1308@lynx.no> <9tmr83$jo2$1@cesium.transmeta.com> <20011123212557.U1308@lynx.no>

Andreas Dilger wrote:

> 
> Actually, unless users are actively trying to shoot themselves in the
> foot, none of this really matters.  However, now that ext3 is in the
> mainline, the number of users playing with guns has increased a large
> amount, it seems, by the number of such reports on ext3-users.
> 
> Because .journal is created as immutable, even if it was backed up and
> tried to be restored, it would be impossible to write to.  For the
> "accursed" ext2 dump, it recognizes the "nodump" flag, but also knows
> enough not to back up the journal file.  Sadly, neither cpio or tar
> know about ext2 attributes.
> 


Nor scp, nor rsync, nor find, nor...

	-hpa



  reply	other threads:[~2001-11-24  5:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-23 12:58 Moving ext3 journal file RaúlNúñez de Arenas Coronado
2001-11-23 18:20 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-11-24  1:02 ` David Gómez 
2001-11-23 22:59   ` Andreas Dilger
2001-11-24  0:07     ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-11-24  0:41       ` Andreas Dilger
2001-11-24  0:56         ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-11-24  4:25           ` Andreas Dilger
2001-11-24  5:05             ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2001-11-24 11:37               ` Michael Zimmermann
2001-11-25 10:33                 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-11-25 11:14                   ` Mike Castle
2001-11-25 22:55                     ` Mike Fedyk
2001-11-25 23:55                       ` Mike Fedyk
2001-11-24 17:26               ` Jamie Lokier
2001-11-24 17:49               ` Thorsten Glaser
2001-11-24 10:54       ` Marcel J.E. Mol
2001-11-24 21:19         ` Mike Castle
2001-11-24 22:49           ` Andreas Dilger
2001-11-25  3:34             ` Mike Castle

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