Re: safe file systems

Kurt Huwig (kurt@huwig.de)
Thu, 25 Sep 1997 01:34:42 +0200 (CEST)

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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)?

What about:

kurt@TittyTwister:/home/kurt > man mount
[...]
sync All I/O to the file system should be done
synchronously.
[...]

Kurt

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