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Message-ID: <71a0d6ff0905120455x291d7280ybe8d1a562987fd1b@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 14:55:10 +0300
From: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishckin@...il.com>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@....com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Q] ext3 mkfs: zeroing journal blocks
On 11 May 2009 21:44, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com> wrote:
> Andreas Dilger wrote:
>
>> The reason that the journal is zeroed is because there is some chance
>> that old (valid at the time) transaction headers and commit blocks might
>> be in the journal and could accidentally be "recovered" and cause bad
>> corruption of the filesystem.
>
> But I guess the question is, why isn't a normal internal log zeroed?
>
> If I'm reading it right only external logs get this treatment, and I
> think that's what generated the original question from Alexander.
My concern was basically if it is safe to skip zeroing for internal journal.
Regards,
--
Alex
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