[Arm-netbook] Logging and journaling

Tzafrir Cohen tzafrir at cohens.org.il
Thu Feb 9 11:11:58 GMT 2017


On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 06:03:06AM -0500, Julie Marchant wrote:
> On 02/09/17 01:50, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> >  do you know the mkfs.ext4 commands needed or the ext2flags command?
> 
> No, but just using an ext2 filesystem instead should suffice (since ext2
> doesn't support journaling). That's the standard advice for the OpenPandora.

So what happens on a violent poweroff? Just lose data?

There's also f2fs. But you do need a recent enough kernel to use it. The
versions from some older kernels may eat some files occasionally.

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