Re: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH] generic/050: handle f2fs as nojournal filesystem

On 4/10/26 13:18, Jan Prusakowski via Linux-f2fs-devel wrote:
> F2FS uses a checkpoint mechanism for metadata consistency rather than a
> traditional journal. Roll-forward recovery is only needed if there are
> fsync'd files since the last checkpoint.
> 
> In this test case, files are created without fsync, so there is no
> roll-forward data to replay during mount.
> 
> Therefore, F2FS does not need to write to the device to recover, and
> successfully mounts on the read-only block device. Thus, it should be
> treated as nojournal in this case.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Prusakowski <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <[email protected]>

Thanks,