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it's about the crashes!!!

it's about the crashes!!!

Posted Mar 19, 2009 5:56 UTC (Thu) by xoddam (subscriber, #2322)
In reply to: it's about the crashes!!! by butlerm
Parent article: Better than POSIX?

Metaphysics aside, surely these primary and secondary purposes you describe themselves have the ultimate goal of saving end users the trouble of cleaning up a mess after an unclean shutdown?


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it's about the crashes!!!

Posted Mar 20, 2009 21:17 UTC (Fri) by butlerm (subscriber, #13312) [Link]

Yes. The primary goal of journaling is to make the filesystem more robust
so that manual intervention after a system crash is minimized.

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