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> On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, Larry McVoy wrote:
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> > 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?
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> 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.
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> 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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