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Re: Journaling layer update - any really good programmer want to start working on the userland journal scanning utility ? You need to have a LOT of time available!


From: Bill Hacker <wbh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 10:23:48 +0800

Matthew Dillon wrote:
:Since journals aren't persistant across reboots, this would be of
:limited use now. So, what are you going to do about that? Having some
:kind of /etc/rc.d/journal script that will mountctl the partitions,
:perhaps reading the data from e.g. /etc/mountctl.conf, or are you going
:to store the journal info in the filesystem, perhaps in the superblock?

    I think we'd want something like an /etc/mountctl.conf, yes.  I'd integrate
    it into /etc/fstab if I could, but /etc/fstab is already too full of junk.

-Matt


How about creating:


'/etc/jfstab' - or '/etc/dfjstab'

. ..specifically, and only, for the purpose of managing this DragonFlyBSD-unique
feature-set?


Keeps it out of potential confusion with non-DragonFly tools...

Bill



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