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. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list