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From: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" <vs@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: where is the journal kept?
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 16:25:37 +0400
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Hello

Payal Rathod wrote:
> Hi,
> I have been reading about journalling filesystems but still don't get 
> where exactly the journal is kept phyically on the harddisk. Can anyone 
> help me with basics of this?
> 

Each journaling filesystem keeps its journal by its own way.
In reiserfs by default journal is kept in statically pre-allocated on mkfs time 8192 blocks (4096 bytes each) starting from 18-th block.