Re: [SLE] Reliable writing to ReiserFS

5 Mar 2001

      Can I display my ignorance and ask what the difference between an journaling
and and a logging file system is, please?

Alan Lenton

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeffrey Taylor" 
To: "SuSE Linux" 
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 8:41 PM
Subject: Re: [SLE] Reliable writing to ReiserFS

| I am aware of the distinction and clearly something has changed in
| this area moving from ext2 to reiserfs.

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| TIA,
|   Jeffrey

| Quoting Lenz Grimmer :

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| > Please do not confuse things here: ReiserFS is a journaling not a logging
| > file system. That means the structure of the file _system_ is always in a
| > consistent state. However, single files can still be corrupted during a
| > failure (if they are currently being written), there is nothing, that
| > ReiserFS (or any other non-logging FS) can do about that.
| >
| > LenZ