Explain in mke2fs and tune2fs man pages that shared journals are not supported

Addresses Debian Bug: #316040

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

diff --git a/misc/ChangeLog b/misc/ChangeLog
index 328b1c3..c9956af 100644 (file)
--- a/misc/ChangeLog
+++ b/misc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2006-03-27  root  <tytso@mit.edu>
+
+       * mke2fs.8.in, tune2fs.8.in: Add note to man page explaning that
+               shared journals are not currently supported.  (Addresses
+               Debian Bug: #316040)
+
 2006-03-27  Theodore Ts'o  <tytso@mit.edu>
 
        * Makefile.in: Make sure $(DESTDIR)/usr/share/man/man5 exists when

diff --git a/misc/mke2fs.8.in b/misc/mke2fs.8.in
index 47b131a..7f19699 100644 (file)
--- a/misc/mke2fs.8.in
+++ b/misc/mke2fs.8.in
@@ -255,6 +255,11 @@ and may be no more than 102,400 filesystem blocks.
 @JDEV@.I external-journal
 @JDEV@must have been created with the
 @JDEV@same block size as the new filesystem.
+@JDEV@In addition, while there is support for attaching
+@JDEV@multiple filesystems to a single external journal,
+@JDEV@the Linux kernel and 
+@JDEV@.BR e2fsck (8)
+@JDEV@do not currently support shared external journals yet.
 @JDEV@.IP
 @JDEV@Instead of specifying a device name directly,
 @JDEV@.I external-journal

diff --git a/misc/tune2fs.8.in b/misc/tune2fs.8.in
index 47b247e..ef53009 100644 (file)
--- a/misc/tune2fs.8.in
+++ b/misc/tune2fs.8.in
@@ -242,6 +242,11 @@ that size.
 @JDEV@.I external-journal
 @JDEV@must be formatted with the same block
 @JDEV@size as filesystems which will be using it.
+@JDEV@In addition, while there is support for attaching
+@JDEV@multiple filesystems to a single external journal,
+@JDEV@the Linux kernel and 
+@JDEV@.BR e2fsck (8)
+@JDEV@do not currently support shared external journals yet.
 @JDEV@.IP
 @JDEV@Instead of specifying a device name directly,
 @JDEV@.I external-journal