Re: file systems

[Arnt Karlsen <arnt@c2i.net>]

On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:34:24 +1000, Andrew wrote in message 
<[🔎] 4DB04070.1030500@affinityvision.com.au>:

> Hi,
> 
> Heddle Weaver wrote:
> > *http://tinyurl.com/3tu3ww9
> 
> That's a pretty old reference, but an interesting read.
> 
> Important note:
> These tests were done with a 2.4 kernel. They should be repeated to
> see if they still apply with modern 2.6.18+ kernels in use today.
> 
> 
> > *And this example is somewhat dated, but illustrates one such
> > instance:*
> > 
> > **http://tinyurl.com/3qjtj82
> 
> That's pretty old too but to me seems much less worthwhile reading.
> 
> In any case, I would say that both of those references are too old to
> be of much real use to any argument today.
> 

..I've had about half a dozen crashes on ext3 where the journal 
was written to disk but not the data, so the journal trashed my 
old data "that were gone" according to the journal, on the next 
fsck.  

-- 
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
  Scenarios always come in sets of three: 
  best case, worst case, and just in case.