Re: Journaling Filesystems?

[Michael Schmitz <schmitz@mail.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de>]

> > I don't recall the ext2 'upgrade' being dangerous. And there's always the
> > option of having the kernel byteswap (or not) on the fly, after examining
> > the superblock and deciding what byte order the filesystem is in. That's
> > what we did with ext2 for quite some time. 
> 
> Well, the e2fsck option to do it, ate my FS.  Tho it was funky to begin with
> :)

Sorry to hear that. Worked fine for me but that was years back on m68k
(and disks used to be a lot smaller those days, which may make a
difference). There was one broken version of e2fstools early on (pre
1.06-4.1) but that only affected a few people AFAIK. My memory may be
fuzzy but it's been almost four years since... m68k had gone through a few
endianness changes before so it's well possible that the bitmap byte order
was already little endian there, and e2fsck -s didn't touch the bitmaps. 

	Michael