Re: reiserfs logging patches udpated

[Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>]

Nikita Danilov wrote:
> Mike Fedyk writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
>  > 
>  > The basic idea of virtual vs block journals, is that instead of using a 
>  > few bytes to describe what you're changing in (for instance) the inode 
>  > table (or equivalent), ext3 (and reiser3 thanks to info from Chris 
>  > Mason) copies entire inode table block (usually 1-4k depending on block 
>  > size) into the journal.
> 
> Unless I am missing something this is called "logical logging" (as
> opposed to the "physical logging") in the data-base literature.

Yes, thanks for pointing that out.  I had forgotten the correct term 
(and mentioned that in my first message about that at the time). 
"Virtual" was the best approximation I could think of when I was writing 
that up.

Mike