Hey! Mike's UP!!
Regards, Jim
At 03:59 PM 4/4/00 -0700, you wrote:
>EXT3 and Reiser filesystems do journaling. It basically keeps a journal
>of files and directories that are accessed so that when the system
>crashes, recovery is in less than a second because only the parts that are
>used are checked. That means--no more fsck, and fast recovery. It also
>is faster, because the locations of the most commonly used files are
>cached, and the system "learns" as you use it what stuff you are more
>likely to access. This is a medium-sized step in the direction of
>large-scale systems with 100% reliability and fault tolerance. SGI has
>had it for years, and it has been working very well. The problem that
>they are having is that some parts of the code are proprietary(outsourced
>to other companies, so SGI does not own the code itself), so they
>are only releasing the stuff that they own, with oper-source developers to
>do fill in the holes.
>
>Michael J Smith
>Flyfisher, Russian Translator, and Linux-Geek-at-Large
>2250 Patterson #25
>Eugene, OR 97405
>(541) 346-7562
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