where went [kjournald]?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Wed, 19 May 2010, R Kimber wrote:

> On Wed, 19 May 2010 08:57:49 -0400 (EDT)
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> >   perhaps just my inexperience with ubuntu, but don't ext[34]
> > filesystems normally have a journalling thread running -- kjournald --
> > that i can see via the output of "ps -ef"?
> >
> >   i'm sure i've seen it on my fedora systems, but i don't see it on
> > 10.04.  can someone clarify what's happening here?  thanks.
>
> I have:-
> ps -ef|grep kjournald
>
> root       459     2  0 May18 ?        00:00:00 [kjournald]
> root      1167     2  0 May18 ?        00:00:00 [kjournald]
> ... snip ...
>
> Is this what you mean?

  yup.  my setup has a single, all-encompassing root filesystem for
simplicity, but shouldn't it have a journaling kernel thread as well?
the first line of output from my "mount" command:

  /dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)

so why no journaling?

rday

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