From 3024d887df20838d62d25f74433aa914a80ac85b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Theodore Ts'o Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 11:53:00 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Explain in mke2fs and tune2fs man pages that shared journals are not supported Addresses Debian Bug: #316040 Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" --- misc/ChangeLog | 6 ++++++ misc/mke2fs.8.in | 5 +++++ misc/tune2fs.8.in | 5 +++++ 3 files changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/misc/ChangeLog b/misc/ChangeLog index 328b1c3..c9956af 100644 --- a/misc/ChangeLog +++ b/misc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2006-03-27 root + + * 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 * 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 --- 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 --- 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 -- 1.8.3.1