Questions regarding journal replay

Ralf Hildebrandt Ralf.Hildebrandt at charite.de
Wed Feb 25 18:11:08 UTC 2009


* Eric Sandeen <sandeen at redhat.com>:

> > The problem seems to be with the external journal which I recently
> > changed to. It's a 32GB partition. My timings seem to indicate that
> > ALL OF IT was being replayed
> > 
> 
> But you also saw this with an internal journal?

Yes.
 
> Perhaps you have uncovered 2 bugs ... :)
> 
> TBH external journals probably aren't tested that much (though they
> certainly should work)
> 
> I'll give it a quick sanity test on ext4.

They DO work, but apparently the docs are wrong! I mean, no sane
person needs 32GB of journal

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