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From: Coywolf Qi Hunt <qiyong@fc-cn.com>
To: Christian Unger <c.unger@uq.edu.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kjournald - what does this process actually do?
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 09:59:01 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051114015901.GA2471@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200511141122.40638.c.unger@uq.edu.au>

On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 11:22:40AM +1000, Christian Unger wrote:
> Hi there
> 
> I was wondering, what does kjournald actually do. I know it relates to using 
> jounralised file systems such as ext3 and reiserfs, but that's about it. I 
> wasn't really hoping to dig through source code, but :P ...

Commit at every 5 seconds intervals.

> 
> Also, what would cause a kjournald process to go down?

freeze, umount and on-error.

		Coywolf

      parent reply	other threads:[~2005-11-14  1:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-14  1:22 kjournald - what does this process actually do? Christian Unger
2005-11-14  1:33 ` Christian Unger
2005-11-14  1:59 ` Coywolf Qi Hunt [this message]

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