12 May
2017
12 May
'17
1:41 a.m.
Consistent with what I remember of running fsck on Slackware in the 90s after unscheduled
shutdowns.
I longed for the time I'd get back when ext3 was incorporated into Linux and ext2 was
relegated to
legacy.
As far as I can remember ext2 was never journaled. I remembered getting quite excited
reading about
the log-structured file system in the O'Reilly 4.4BSD-Lite CD. That made so much
sense to me.
Quoting Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com>:
On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 09:47:01AM +1000, Dave
Horsfall wrote:
My memory is ext2 is not journaled, I think that happened in ext3. Or
maybe it was an option on ext2? Either way, I think ext2 did the right
thing without the journal.
"I have supposed that he who buys a Method means to learn it." - Ferdinand Sor,
Method for Guitar
"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on." -- Samuel
Goldwyn
On Thu, 11 May 2017, Larry McVoy wrote:
[...]
> Try the same thing with Linux. The file system will come back,
starting
with, I
believe, ext2.
That's a journalled FS, isn't it? In which case the transactions get
replayed.