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Date:      Tue, 12 Sep 2006 12:04:01 +0200
From:      Christian Laursen <xi@borderworlds.dk>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: gjournal and Softupdates
Message-ID:  <ygfirjto0z2.fsf@dominion.borderworlds.dk>
In-Reply-To: <ee5vat$fcb$1@sea.gmane.org> (Ivan Voras's message of "Tue, 12 Sep 2006 11:40:31 %2B0200")
References:  <45066E19.2040405@kuehlbox.de> <ee5vat$fcb$1@sea.gmane.org>

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Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> writes:

> - todays desktop drives can lie about writing data. SoftUpdates relies
> on some assumptions about when the data is physically written to
> media, and those are not always valid today

I think journaling relies on the same assumptions.

However, with journaling you can have filesystem corruption and not know
about it. With fsck, bg or not, at least you will know.

-- 
Christian Laursen



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