Messages in this thread | | | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Date | Thu, 9 Dec 1999 19:13:36 +0000 (GMT) | Subject | Re: Ext3 Filesystem |
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Hi,
On Wed, 8 Dec 1999 01:16:10 -0500 (EST), "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu> said:
>> There is already a range of inode numbers which e2fsck treats as >> reserved. e2fsck will also have to be taught about journal recovery,
> Ext2 does not put inodes or bitmaps in files. Why do this for the log? > Using a file seems inconsistent with the rest of ext2/3.
The quota files, on the other hand, are regular files. We don't have any consistency to worry about here. :)
But either way, using a reserved inode rather than adding new data structures makes it easier to migrate filesystems between ext2 and ext3.
--Stephen
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