On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 10:46:03AM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
> > I made experiments with reiserfs because I've got the same problem
> > here. But I learned that also a journaling fs may become corrupt
> > when power fails (the same with ntfs and embedded nt.)
>
> That's troubling. I thought that the whole motivation for a journaling
> file system was to fix this kind of problem. Were you using the 2.2 or
> 2.4 kernel series for your testing?
Well, you know, here's the thing. Perhaps *I've* been missing
something, but isn't the theory of a journalling filesystem "we can't
guarantee that the drive channel won't fail while we're trying to write
your data on the disk... so we'll *write it on the disk first*, just in
case"?
I've never quite gotten that, myself.
If a drive fails in mid write, then there's *going* to be some data
half-written, no?
Cheers,
-- jra
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