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Date:      Sun, 11 Feb 1996 20:23:34 +1100
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        terry@lambert.org, wscott@ichips.intel.com
Cc:        coredump@onyx.nervosa.com, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How
Message-ID:  <199602110923.UAA03230@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>I believe the Linux ext2 file system is always async.  Is that

A sync option was added a year or two ago.  This option doesn't seem
to be used much.

>filesystem just as unstable or do they do something else to make it
>easier to recover in the case of a crash.

Not a lot.  Perhaps the crash recovery tools are more advanced.

>I have crashed Linux systems many many times and have not noticed a
>real problem recovering.  Am I just lucky?

A bit.  The chance of losing a lot of files given that you've crashed
seems to be small, perhaps 1 in 100.

Bruce



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