Power failure was not even in the picture before your rant
Power failure was not even in the picture before your rant
Posted Mar 31, 2009 7:45 UTC (Tue) by khim (subscriber, #9252)In reply to: From ext3 to ext4: An Interview with Theodore Ts'o (Linux Magazine) by nix
Parent article: From ext3 to ext4: An Interview with Theodore Ts'o (Linux Magazine)
The whole discission started with software crash (nVidia drivers are very helpful here). I fail to see how these "new century" toys can help against this.
Posted Apr 3, 2009 13:55 UTC (Fri)
by anton (subscriber, #25547)
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A software crash is less severe than a power failure, because file
systems that don't use barriers properly (e.g., ext3 by default) will
see all their writes come through to the disk drive, but on a power
failure some writes may not have been carried out, whereas some
logically later writes may have been carried out. As a result, such a
file system can become inconsistent on power failure even if it does
not get inconsistent on a software crash.
Power failure was not even in the picture before your rant