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Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 07:54:36 -0400
From: Venkatesh Srinivas <me@acm.jhu.edu>
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Subject: [9fans] fossil 'halt' command?
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Hi,

extract from the fossil paper:
> The block cache uses soft updates [1] to ensure that the on-disk file
> system is always self-consistent. Thus there is no halt console
> command and no need to check a file system that was shut down without
> halting.

Fossil does have a halt command and does often need checking after an
unexpected shutdown... Any reason why? Was it just observed that it was
needed? Or that soft updates weren't enough?

Thanks,
-- vs