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Hi! Is there a way to view ext3 filesystem's maintained journal (in a human-readable-format)? I ask, because i have had a server crash before and now i'm wondering if i might take a look at last things that my server did straight before crash. I guess clarifying log insertions might be lost before buffers were flushed to disk. Thx.

Continuing on with my earlier post . . . after looking through code of JBD, is the following perhaps the difference in why the md5 values differ; When a journalled filesystem that uses jbd is mounted the journal b_count is incremented by one? *EVEN* if the volume was mounted read only, this b_count is still increased by one? curious as ever! lt __________________________________ Do you

Is there any way to query the size of an existing journal? I have heard a number of sizes thrown around as defaults, but I need to be able to reliably get the exact journal size. Thanks Jason -- ---------------------------------------------------- Storix Software info@storix.com (sales) 1-619-702-6500 support@storix.com (support) 1-877-STORIX-1 (US) http://www.storix.com

Forgive my novice question, but I am a new student of Linux working on presenting the ext3 journaling filesystem to my class. I seek any advice on how to visibly demonstrate (including a purposeful crash of a Linux box) the benefits of ext3 over ext2. I am not worthy to lick the bootstraps of this group, but I beg for any help! The problem I am having extends to even locating the .journal file

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