On Mon, 31 May 2010 21:19:21 -0600 Nicholas Leippe <n...@leippe.com> wrote:
> I recall back in the day when you had finer control over the hard > disks. You could low-level format. You could explicitly park the > heads. But, we didn't have journalling filesystems either. I remember when Seagate came out with the ST-506. All of 5 megabytes. Wow, such a roomy storage device. I also remember hot rodding those with RLL controllers instead of MFM. Mucking with the interleaving to get faster reads. When heads, cylinders and sectors meant something. Glad I did it. Glad I don't have to now. > > You may still lose data, but with a decent filesystem, it will not > come back on in a scrambled state despite pulling the power on it. > One of the reasons I wish tux3 will come to fruition, is that it's not > even journalled, yet it provides the same benefit--w/o having to play > any logs back at all--it's just *there*, and so's a completely > consistent version of the data. Very clever. Sounds interesting. Unfortunately it looks only slightly more alive than a lawyer's ethics. Sigh. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
