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Subject: Re: gjournal and Softupdates
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Christian Laursen wrote:

> Journaling also needs writes to be done in the correct order. You don't
> want to write the real update to the filesystem before you have made sure

Ok, but journal is (or should be) protected by checksumming or some kind 
of record markers, so invalid entries are not replayed.