Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750750AbVKNB7R (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Nov 2005 20:59:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750758AbVKNB7R (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Nov 2005 20:59:17 -0500 Received: from [218.25.172.144] ([218.25.172.144]:61969 "HELO mail.fc-cn.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750750AbVKNB7Q (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Nov 2005 20:59:16 -0500 Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 09:59:01 +0800 From: Coywolf Qi Hunt To: Christian Unger Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: kjournald - what does this process actually do? Message-ID: <20051114015901.GA2471@localhost.localdomain> References: <200511141122.40638.c.unger@uq.edu.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200511141122.40638.c.unger@uq.edu.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 683 Lines: 20 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/