Re: kjournald - what does this process actually do?

[Coywolf Qi Hunt]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 11:22:40AM +1000, Christian Unger wrote:
> Hi there
> 
> I was wondering, what does kjournald actually do. I know it relates to using 
> jounralised file systems such as ext3 and reiserfs, but that's about it. I 
> wasn't really hoping to dig through source code, but :P ...

Commit at every 5 seconds intervals.

> 
> Also, what would cause a kjournald process to go down?

freeze, umount and on-error.

		Coywolf
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