Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 24 Nov 2001 00:06:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 24 Nov 2001 00:06:29 -0500 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:33546 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 24 Nov 2001 00:06:14 -0500 Message-ID: <3BFF2AAE.7000000@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 21:05:50 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.5) Gecko/20011012 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, sv MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andreas Dilger CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Moving ext3 journal file In-Reply-To: <20011123155901.C1308@lynx.no> <9tmocg$jfn$1@cesium.transmeta.com> <20011123174120.Q1308@lynx.no> <9tmr83$jo2$1@cesium.transmeta.com> <20011123212557.U1308@lynx.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andreas Dilger wrote: > > Actually, unless users are actively trying to shoot themselves in the > foot, none of this really matters. However, now that ext3 is in the > mainline, the number of users playing with guns has increased a large > amount, it seems, by the number of such reports on ext3-users. > > Because .journal is created as immutable, even if it was backed up and > tried to be restored, it would be impossible to write to. For the > "accursed" ext2 dump, it recognizes the "nodump" flag, but also knows > enough not to back up the journal file. Sadly, neither cpio or tar > know about ext2 attributes. > Nor scp, nor rsync, nor find, nor... -hpa - 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/