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Death, taxes, and fsck?

Death, taxes, and fsck?

Posted May 3, 2007 13:25 UTC (Thu) by qu1j0t3 (guest, #25786)
In reply to: Death, taxes, and fsck? by boniek
Parent article: Filesystems: chunkfs and reiser4

Checksumming + redundancy aren't enough to remove the need for fsck, however. One also needs COW & transactional updates.

Until kernel devs actually admit Reiser and/or Sun have actually got it right, Linux will be stuck with fsck for a good while yet.


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