interesting note on fsck and journalled filesystems

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 13:35:54 -0500
Grant Young <granty at bellatlantic.net> wrote:

> The quest for a bullet proof filesystem will continue.  Linux is a
> really great test and development platform for this.  It seems to
> support more filesystems more easily than any other OS I can think of.
Yes, but a lot comes from commercial Unix. Ext3 is simply ext2 with
journalling added, where ReiserFS, JFS and XFS are designed around
journalling. 

Journalling really has nothing to do with the bulletproofing of a file
system per se. The reason to use a journalling file system has more to
do with crash recovery time than with integrity. IMHO, most Unix/Linux
file systems run without any significant problems for years

- -- 
Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9
PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQFAAGED+wA+1cUGHqkRAq7ZAJ0Zyc5H+85Qo8tmPtD7UPT+lgpg9gCfYIpe
MPKs0rxQ5NSo4MWcLTjG7AQ=
=67Hs
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----