Re: What does this mean?

[Basil Chupin <blchupin@tpg.com.au>]

Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:

>On Sat, 13 Jul 2002 19:59:55 +1000, Basil Chupin <blchupin@tpg.com.au>  said:
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>>We compared the outputs from the 'ps aux' command and what I found is 
>>that I am not running the kjournald process on any of my (3) 'systems' 
>> while he is (on his 2 'systems') even though our setups are almost 
>>identical (with regards to running SuSE v8 ). I thought kjournald was 
>>part and parcel of reiserfs but then why isn't it running on my 
>>'systems'? Just another mystery.
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>ext2 filesystems don't have a kernel thread.
>ext3 have one kjournald thread per file system.
>resierfs have one kreiserfsd thread per file system.
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>You don't have any because you're all reiserfs.
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I learn someting new every day. Thanks for this information. And, Yes I 
do only have reiserfs installed.

>  His two systems obviously
>have at least 1 ext3 file system (/boot or / perhaps?)
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Ah, now this is something I believe he does not have. Like me he 
installs everything under the one file system. Howeve, I will check with 
him just in case he somehow misconfigured his system by accident (or 
design).

Cheers.