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From: Ed Tomlinson <tomlins@cam.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] 64 bit scsi read/write
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 11:08:34 -0400
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On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Paul Jakma wrote:
>On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote:

>> put your journal on NVRAM, you will have blazing synchronous I/O.

>so ext3 supports having the journal somewhere else then. question: can
>the journal be on tmpfs?

Why would you want too?  You _need_ the journal after a crash to recover
without an fsck - if its on tmpfs you are SOL...

Ed Tomlinson
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