> 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