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2005 Sep 17
2
turning off journaling on the fly?
Dear penguin lovers, =) I'm running Linux (2.6) on a satellite receiver with harddrive. The latter is formated in ext3. So far, everthing works fine. Now here's the small problem: The receiver is in the same room I sleep in and when it records at night time I can hear the journaling going on (heads clicking - even though the HD is set to silent mode via hdparm). This is surely due to the
2005 Mar 10
3
a few questions about ext3 journal
A few wild ideas/questions : 1) Is there a way to check the size of the journal of an ext3 filesystem ? I mean - the actually used size ; not the total size of the journal. 2) Would it be difficult to implement "freeze" of ext3 filesystem - that is, blocking all I/O to the filesystem until it's "unfrozen" (XFS can do that), for two purposes : A/ allowing