Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Sep 1997 15:40:47 -0500 (CDT) | From | Gene Imes <> | Subject | Re: safe file systems |
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On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Steven N. Hirsch wrote:
> > > On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, Larry McVoy wrote: > > > Do you think it would be possible to build a safe, slow file system? > > By safe, I mean that I could hit reset in the middle of 50 parallel > > un-tars and reboot the system and the file system comes up clean (no fsck, > > but data loss)? > > > > Has anyone thought about this very much? If so, is there a mailing list or > > archive that I can browse? > > Unless I'm misunderstanding you, this describes the semantics of a > journaling filesystem. There was a group working on this, I believe, but > I do not have the mailing list address handy. > > At work we use JFS on IBM RS/6k boxes and Advfs on Digital Unix. AFAIK, > they are highly tolerant of the abuse you describe. > > Steve > > >
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