Eric Lemings wrote:
I mounted a root filesystem from an older installation and found that
the files were not current. I figure it has something to do with the
journaling in the ext3 filesystem. I know I shutdown the system the
last time that root filesystem was cleanly unmounted so all files should
be current when mounted on a different system, shouldn't they? Or is
there some particular way it has to be mounted? Are the latest versions
of the files recoverable?
I am not an expert on ext3 and differences between ext3 and ext2,
but what you describe does not sound like a journal problem. I have
supported journalled file systems on proprietary systems. Especially,
if your system was shut down cleanly, there should be no journal
entries at all.
Mike
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