Re: filesystem in a blackbox ?

David Woodhouse (dwmw2@redhat.com)
Fri, 11 Aug 2000 15:47:57 +0100


mason@suse.com said:
> Journaled filesystems won't completely solve the problem. Sure, the
> FS will be intact when you boot, but all the modifications might not
> be there. Even with data logging under ext3, some writes could be
> missing after unflushed power down.

This is true, unless you do everything with O_SYNC (which is in fact the
only way that JFFS can work ATM).

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dwmw2

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