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On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote:

> I would guess that if a way could be found to preallocate the
> journal space (as with mkfile(8) in sufficiently-old systems),
> and then record its location in a reasonably-secure location
> (the superblock?), it could be accessed during recovery without
> reference to possibly-corrupt filesystem metadata.

That's the kind of approach I was thinking of.  I'm sure it would be a bit 
of work, but it would be cool.

Mike "Silby" Silbersack