----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Starkey" <jas@...>
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 11:55 PM


> >
> The original journalling worked like this:

May I ask a question?

Does the current breed of journalling filesystems (eg. on Linux, ext3,
Reiser, jfs) provide any DB protection? Is it worth using them, or just
unecessary overhead?

Thanks,

Andrew Gough
LiveNote Technologies Inc.