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

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Subject: Re: Follow up -- Re: Files on XFS not safe?!
From: Austin Gonyou <austin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 05 Dec 2001 20:03:23 -0600
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It is wholly possible that NTFS could be like OpenBSD's filesystem, in
that it is technically not "journaling", but is soft updates? This would
offer the stability, but at a speed hit, which seems to be right on part
with Windows(tm) usual stuff.  
On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 17:12, D. Stimits wrote:
> Dan Hollis wrote:
> > 
> > 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
> > --
> > [-] Omae no subete no kichi wa ore no mono da. [-]
> 
> I'm curious what kind of journaling is used with NTFS, if anyone knows?
> I assume it is probably meta.
> 
> D. Stimits, stimits@xxxxxxxxxx
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