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Subject: Re: [9fans] making better use of ext2fs?
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Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 13:25:44 +0100
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>>One thing I've noticed is that people report kfs sometimes gets flaky
>>when used in a stand-alone configuration.

apart from not sync'ing on shutdown, i suspect many of the problems people had with
kfs were mainly caused by bugs elsewhere in the kernel (eg, the ones that
caused trouble when pages were paged out).
perhaps kfs deserves a bad name for other reasons, but i don't think this
is one of them.  it's worth noting that if disk/kfs is buggy, it's quite
serious, because the main file server uses similar code.
i've been running various versions of kfs on my thinkpads for
more than five years.