From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy) Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 17:16:26 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] The evolution of Unix facilities and architecture In-Reply-To: References: <20170511140729.2262B18C09A@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> <013b01d2ca96$6901b370$3b051a50$@ronnatalie.com> <20170511222547.GJ4341@mcvoy.com> Message-ID: <20170512001626.GQ4341@mcvoy.com> On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 09:47:01AM +1000, Dave Horsfall wrote: > On Thu, 11 May 2017, Larry McVoy wrote: > > [...] > > > Try the same thing with Linux. The file system will come back, starting > > with, I believe, ext2. > > That's a journalled FS, isn't it? In which case the transactions get > replayed. My memory is ext2 is not journaled, I think that happened in ext3. Or maybe it was an option on ext2? Either way, I think ext2 did the right thing without the journal.