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From: Jonathan Sergent <sergent@IO.COM>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] making better use of ext2fs?
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 10:17:39 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010514171739.DC62B199F2@mail.cse.psu.edu> (raw)

>apart from not sync'ing on shutdown

Even there, it's not been to bad to me--rolling blackouts, ^P.  I did
end up with some strange corruption once when this happened, but wrap
made it easy to figure out which system files got busted, and it
hasn't happened since then.

OTOH I suffered through many instances of having to suffer through
e2fsck and losing data when Linux ran on the same machine.  (And I
couldn't use the packaging database to check for what was busted,
because it turned into a subdirectory after the fsck was done.)

Am I confused or is the problem with data corruption on unclean
shutdown with kfs the same as with ext2, namely that there aren't
synchronous metadata updates?



             reply	other threads:[~2001-05-14 17:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-14 17:17 Jonathan Sergent [this message]
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2001-05-14 18:10 forsyth
2001-05-14 12:25 forsyth
2001-05-14 10:36 Aharon Robbins

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