gjournal & async

[Ivan Voras]

Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 02:43:29AM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote:
>> How does gjournal guarantee corectness if UFS is mounted async? AFAIK
>> the "async" handling of IO requests is done by the UFS, the writes are
>> not rescheduled at the GEOM layer?
> 
> GJournal has some minimum knowledge about VFS. Before it does journal
> switch, it synchronize and suspends file system. This way we can be sure
> everything is on disk in a consistent state.

Thanks. So, this (async support) could actually work with other file
systems, like ext2 and msdos?


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