Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Jan 2001 13:26:18 -0200 (BRDT) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Journaling: Surviving or allowing unclean shutdown? |
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On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Dr. David Gilbert wrote:
> I got wondering as to whether the various journaling file > system activities were designed to survive the occasional > unclean shutdown or were designed to allow the user to just pull > the plug as a regular means of shutting down.
> Thoughts?
1. a journaling filesystem is designed to be "consistent" (or rather, easily recoverable) all of the time 2. there's no difference between the "2 situations" you describe above
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