Mike is on-line again. And at high-speed.
You have been warned.
Jim Darrough wrote:
> 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
