Re: fsync on large files

Dan Hollis (goemon@sasami.anime.net)
Thu, 18 Feb 1999 09:37:22 -0800 (PST)


On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Richard Jones wrote:
> About the *only* problem with ext2 right now is the long fsck times.

No. The fact you can lose data after a crash is. The long fsck times is
a secondary concern. Data integrity is the *primary* concern.

Manual intervention to repair broken directories and mucking around in
lost+found just sucks. Or in worst case, restoring from DAT backup :-(

A jfs would eliminate this entirely, plus fix the long fsck times.

Actually, a generic jfs layer (as Stephen mentioned?) would be nicer, then
it could be applied to any filesystem -- even sucky ones like fat32 I
suppose.

-Dan

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