This is not true. Journaling file systems trace their roots at least as far back as Cedar ("Reimplementing the Cedar File System Using Logging and Group Commit") in the late 1980s. Ousterhout and Rosenblum worked on log-structured file systems in the early 1990s, which are markedly different from modern journaling file systems (JFSs uses a log to ensure crash consistency, but metadata/data end up in a fixed place; LFSs put everything into the log and keep it there).
