[TriLUG] Mandrake 8.1 out in Beta

[Donald Ball]

On Wed, 22 Aug 2001 jeremyp at pobox.com wrote:

> > Any reason behind it? I would like to know pros and cons (no religious
> > instances) on those journaling filesystems.
>
> I know this is a stupid question, but what is the benefit of a
> "journaling" filesystem?  What does that do that everyone is so excited
> about?  :)

the time it takes to check the filesystem after a crash is proportional to
the size of the log rather than the size of the filesystem. probably less
chance of corruption as well.

- donald