Re: [PATCH] hfsplus: don't modify journaled volume

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Hi,

On Sat, 5 Nov 2005, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:

> > I would agree with that and further, is that not a bit draconian?  
> > HFSPlus is designed to work without the journal.  Just change the last 
> > mounted version to FSK! (0x46534b21) and everything will work as expected, 
> > i.e. fsck will run a check instead of ignoring the volume and osx will 
> > mount the volume and reinitialize the journal.  Remember older OSX 
> > versions did not support journalling so if you attached your external 
> > drive to one of those older osx boxes, you would also get non-journalled 
> > writes to a journalled volume.  It's all designed for it...
> 
> And you do not need to be worried about journal reply because you 
> already do not allow read/write mounts when the volume has not been 
> unmounted cleanly, so there really is no reason not to allow mounting 
> a volume with a journal...

Sorry, but I had too many reports about problems with journaled volumes, 
so I prefer the safe solution, until we can at least replay the journal.

bye, Roman
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