Re: Ext3 Question re: Journal and data

2017-04-28 Thread Chris Murphy
Also I'd be really clear on why you want to use ext3 over ext4. Ext4 has numerous advantages over ext3. This article "rm -r fs/ext3" is kinda interesting: https://lwn.net/Articles/651645/ Basically these days it's the ext4 kernel code with backward compatibility mounting an ext3 file system. And

Re: Ext3 Question re: Journal and data

2017-04-28 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 1:53 PM, JD wrote: > Could you explain what the journal is holding: The User Data, the Metadata, > or Both? By default, the journal contains an abbreviated representation of the metadata. Faster to write, faster to read, than fs metadata. But it requires interpretation an

Re: Ext3 Question re: Journal and data

2017-04-20 Thread Rick Stevens
On 04/19/2017 07:03 PM, JD wrote: > > > On 04/19/2017 05:07 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: >> On 04/19/2017 12:53 PM, JD wrote: >>> On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 9:13 PM, Chris Murphy >> > wrote: >>> >>> On a journaled filesystem, data and journal only are committed with >

Re: Ext3 Question re: Journal and data

2017-04-19 Thread JD
On 04/19/2017 05:07 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: On 04/19/2017 12:53 PM, JD wrote: On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 9:13 PM, Chris Murphy mailto:li...@colorremedies.com>> wrote: On a journaled filesystem, data and journal only are committed with sync(). You have to umount or remount readonly to g

Re: Ext3 Question re: Journal and data

2017-04-19 Thread Rick Stevens
On 04/19/2017 12:53 PM, JD wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 9:13 PM, Chris Murphy > wrote: > > On a journaled filesystem, data and journal only are committed with > sync(). You have to umount or remount readonly to get all filesystem > metadata to co

Re: Ext3 Question re: Journal and data

2017-04-19 Thread JD
On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 9:13 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > On a journaled filesystem, data and journal only are committed with > sync(). You have to umount or remount readonly to get all filesystem > metadata to commit. > > After sync () it's expected you can crash, and the filesystem will be made >

Re: Ext3 Question re: Journal and data

2017-04-18 Thread Chris Murphy
On a journaled filesystem, data and journal only are committed with sync(). You have to umount or remount readonly to get all filesystem metadata to commit. After sync () it's expected you can crash, and the filesystem will be made consistent at next remount when the journal is replayed. If anyth

Re: Ext3 Question re: Journal and data

2017-04-18 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 11:55:00AM -0600, JD wrote: > > > On 04/18/2017 04:02 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Mon, 2017-04-17 at 21:07 -0600, JD wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > is there a way to force the flush (write out) of ext3 journal AND data > > > WITHOUT unmounting it? > > sync(1) > > >

Re: Ext3 Question re: Journal and data

2017-04-18 Thread JD
On 04/18/2017 12:05 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 04/18/2017 10:55 AM, JD wrote: On 04/18/2017 04:02 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2017-04-17 at 21:07 -0600, JD wrote: Hi all, is there a way to force the flush (write out) of ext3 journal AND data WITHOUT unmounting it? sync(1) poc Tr

Re: Ext3 Question re: Journal and data

2017-04-18 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 04/18/2017 10:55 AM, JD wrote: On 04/18/2017 04:02 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2017-04-17 at 21:07 -0600, JD wrote: Hi all, is there a way to force the flush (write out) of ext3 journal AND data WITHOUT unmounting it? sync(1) poc Tried it. No go. Sync seems to only flush out th

Re: Ext3 Question re: Journal and data

2017-04-18 Thread JD
On 04/18/2017 04:02 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2017-04-17 at 21:07 -0600, JD wrote: Hi all, is there a way to force the flush (write out) of ext3 journal AND data WITHOUT unmounting it? sync(1) poc Tried it. No go. Sync seems to only flush out the unwritten metadata inodes, not

Re: Ext3 Question re: Journal and data

2017-04-18 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2017-04-17 at 21:07 -0600, JD wrote: > Hi all, > is there a way to force the flush (write out) of ext3 journal AND data > WITHOUT unmounting it? sync(1) poc ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to

Ext3 Question re: Journal and data

2017-04-17 Thread JD
Hi all, is there a way to force the flush (write out) of ext3 journal AND data WITHOUT unmounting it? Thanx! ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org