Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern vfs_journal.c src/sys/sys journal.h mountctl.h

[Hiten Pandya <hmp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     It's getting there.  95% of the kernel code is operational now.  The
>     only thing left on the kernel side is to possibly add some additional
>     information to make undo'ing removed hardlinks easier for the userland,
>     and a few bug fixes.
>
>     The big thing now is to work on the userland side (jscan) to be able
>     to run a mirror backwards, and to work on the code that allows the
>     userland side to resynchronize after a journaling stream has been
>     broken and then restarted.  It turns out that I outsmarted myself a bit
>     on the kernel side... the kernel supports journaling transactions running
>     in parallel and that really complicates the userland code to parse 
>     the transactions.  I have to rewrite that whole bit (in userland's jscan).

Can you not assign transaction identifications and just parse the journal 
accordingly in userland or am I simplyfing this a little too much?

				-Hiten