On Fri, Apr 10, 2026 at 01:18:20PM +0000, Jan Prusakowski wrote: > F2FS uses a checkpoint mechanism for metadata consistency rather than a > traditional journal. Roll-forward recovery is only needed if there are > fsync'd files since the last checkpoint. > > In this test case, files are created without fsync, so there is no > roll-forward data to replay during mount. > > Therefore, F2FS does not need to write to the device to recover, and > successfully mounts on the read-only block device. Thus, it should be > treated as nojournal in this case.
This looks ok, but I always wonder if we want an opt-in for this "journaling" behavior and/or define it clear in common/. _______________________________________________ Linux-f2fs-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-f2fs-devel
