In article <kkcb9f$pei$1...@dont-email.me>, someone <newsbo...@gmail.com> 
wrote:

> > Some of the early Unix file systems were very fragile.  One of the
> > (often under-appreciated) major advances in BSD (it was certainly in
> > 4.2, not sure how much earlier) was a new filesystem which was much more
> > robust in the face of hardware failures and system crashes.  Prior to
> 
> Are you talking about (journaling?) filesystems such as ext3, ext4, JFS, 
> ReiserFS and XFS ?
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journaling_file_system

No, I'm talking about

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Fast_File_System

Journaling came along later.
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