Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 03 Jan 2001 10:38:18 -0500 | From | Michael Rothwell <> | 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?
Journaling filesystems only guarantee consistancy of filesystem metadata. Data that has not been flushed from buffers will be lost, and applications not given a chance to shut themselves down may do bad things if you just unplug the box. Journaling mostly means not having to run FSCK.
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