Should gmirrored gjournal provider have auto-synchronization?

Hywel Mallett hywel at hmallett.co.uk
Sat Oct 9 13:55:59 UTC 2010


On 8 Oct 2010, at 05:22, Carl <k0802647 at telus.net> wrote:

> On 2010-10-07 3:21 PM, Hywel Mallett wrote:
>> gmirror guarantees that a collection of
>> writes either happens in it's entirety, or not at all.
> 
> My admittedly limited understanding of gmirror is that it makes no such guarantee. I think it is gjournal that guarantees the consistency of the file system that sits on top of it, not gmirror, and this would be true even if there were no gmirror below it. 
You are correct. I wrote gmirror in that sentence, but I meant gjournal. 


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