Zhihui Zhang <zzh...@cs.binghamton.edu> wrote:

> By the way, all other metablocks seem to be delay-written. In other words,
> they are not written synchronously.  What happens if the system crashes
> before their updates go to disk.  I read in the mailinglist that FreeBSD
> metadata I/O are conservative.  Can anyone describe this a little bit for
> me.

AFAIK, the non-static information in the superblock and others can easily
be reconstructed by fsck (the information is gathered anyway).


Stefan

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