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Re: Follow up -- Re: Files on XFS not safe?!

To: Xianglong Yuan <yuanx@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Follow up -- Re: Files on XFS not safe?!
From: Dan Hollis <goemon@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 14:16:22 -0800 (PST)
Cc: <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: <20011205140358.F3446@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Xianglong Yuan wrote:
> I just cross-by an excellent article on various journaling
> techniques used in ext3.
> http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-fs8.html

It looks like tux2 is taking a different approach, and one of the goals is
total data integrity -- not just metadata. They are using phase trees.
It's been described as "failsafe" whereas XFS and most other journaling fs
are just "crash resistant".

http://people.nl.linux.org/~phillips/tux2/phase.tree.tutorial.html

-Dan
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