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| Newer page: | version 2 | Last edited on Thursday, November 14, 2002 7:23:50 pm | by PerryLorier | Revert |
| Older page: | version 1 | Last edited on Friday, July 26, 2002 10:49:30 am | by PerryLorier | Revert |
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If a crash occurs due to a power outage or other event, then when the machine starts up it looks at the journal, and verifies that the journal is correct, if it is correct it actions all the journal entries, and if it is invalid, then it ignores them.
This means that the file system will always be in a consistant state, either before the journal was written, or after the journal was written.
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+[JFS] is also the name of [IBM]'s Journalling File System. Original eh? This hasn't been merged into the main linux tree, and I've not heard anything about it (other than, I presume, it's journalling)
