Explain in mke2fs and tune2fs man pages that shared journals are not supported
Addresses Debian Bug: #316040
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
diff --git a/misc/ChangeLog b/misc/ChangeLog
index 328b1c3..c9956af 100644
--- a/misc/ChangeLog
+++ b/misc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2006-03-27 root <tytso@mit.edu>
+
+ * mke2fs.8.in, tune2fs.8.in: Add note to man page explaning that
+ shared journals are not currently supported. (Addresses
+ Debian Bug: #316040)
+
2006-03-27 Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
* Makefile.in: Make sure $(DESTDIR)/usr/share/man/man5 exists when
diff --git a/misc/mke2fs.8.in b/misc/mke2fs.8.in
index 47b131a..7f19699 100644
--- a/misc/mke2fs.8.in
+++ b/misc/mke2fs.8.in
@@ -255,6 +255,11 @@
@JDEV@.I external-journal
@JDEV@must have been created with the
@JDEV@same block size as the new filesystem.
+@JDEV@In addition, while there is support for attaching
+@JDEV@multiple filesystems to a single external journal,
+@JDEV@the Linux kernel and
+@JDEV@.BR e2fsck (8)
+@JDEV@do not currently support shared external journals yet.
@JDEV@.IP
@JDEV@Instead of specifying a device name directly,
@JDEV@.I external-journal
diff --git a/misc/tune2fs.8.in b/misc/tune2fs.8.in
index 47b247e..ef53009 100644
--- a/misc/tune2fs.8.in
+++ b/misc/tune2fs.8.in
@@ -242,6 +242,11 @@
@JDEV@.I external-journal
@JDEV@must be formatted with the same block
@JDEV@size as filesystems which will be using it.
+@JDEV@In addition, while there is support for attaching
+@JDEV@multiple filesystems to a single external journal,
+@JDEV@the Linux kernel and
+@JDEV@.BR e2fsck (8)
+@JDEV@do not currently support shared external journals yet.
@JDEV@.IP
@JDEV@Instead of specifying a device name directly,
@JDEV@.I external-journal