Journaling file systems revisited

[jc at trillian.mit.edu (John Chambers)]

That's pretty funny (if you  aren't  the  victim).   Lately
we've  had the news that Microsoft is going to have to redo
all their taxes for the past decade, to  correct  for  some
"accounting  opportunities"  in some of the calculations of
income.  I wonder how many of their backup  tapes  will  be
readable?

In case anyone missed this story, here's a link:
  http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/PrintStory.pl?document_id=134466879&zsection_id=268448455&slug=webmicrosoft03&date=20020603
It is interesting that amidst all the  Enron  and  Worldcom
stories, we haven't heard too much public mention of this.

Maybe instead of shredding documents, they'll just find that
unfortunately none of the accounting tapes can be read.

| My personal experiences with tapes:
| In a bank where 9 track tapes were stored on site in an environmentally
| controlled library and offsite (accross the parking lot). I went to restore
| from a backup, and failed 3 or 4 generations.
| However, I did work for a company that had to go back 5 years and restate
| their fixed asset depreciation. Apparently some of the tapes were bad.
| At home, I restored from some tape backups, and the tape drive destroyed my
| tapes (fortunately, I had a Jaz drive backup that worked.).,
| On 9 Aug 2002 at 15:14, John Chambers wrote:
| >
| > Of course, that is an argument that is widely used  against
| > tape  backup.
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