From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishckin@gmail.com>,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Q] ext3 mkfs: zeroing journal blocks
Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 13:44:18 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A087202.4010601@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090511182050.GA3209@webber.adilger.int>
Andreas Dilger wrote:
> The reason that the journal is zeroed is because there is some chance
> that old (valid at the time) transaction headers and commit blocks might
> be in the journal and could accidentally be "recovered" and cause bad
> corruption of the filesystem.
But I guess the question is, why isn't a normal internal log zeroed?
If I'm reading it right only external logs get this treatment, and I
think that's what generated the original question from Alexander.
-Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-11 18:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-11 15:03 [Q] ext3 mkfs: zeroing journal blocks Alexander Shishkin
2009-05-11 17:58 ` Eric Sandeen
2009-05-11 18:20 ` Andreas Dilger
2009-05-11 18:44 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2009-05-11 19:35 ` Theodore Tso
2009-05-11 19:35 ` Andreas Dilger
2009-05-12 11:55 ` Alexander Shishkin
2009-05-12 12:13 ` Theodore Tso
2009-05-12 12:49 ` Alexander Shishkin
2009-05-12 21:04 ` Theodore Tso
2009-07-29 15:58 ` [PATCH] [RFC] mkjournal: zero journal blocks only when necessary Alexander Shishkin
2009-07-29 17:16 ` Theodore Tso
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