On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 11:49:33PM -0800, Jacob Meuser wrote: > >Softdep makes fsck _very_ reliable, >
The most utterly hosed filesystem i have ever had the misfortune to be afflicted with, came to me courtesy of softupdates. The enormous files with the immutable flag set, the files with negative timestamps, the files with names from the content of other files, the files with content based on the names of other files; i shudder still to think of it. I don't think it gave me files with slashes in the filenames, but i would not have been surprised if it had. Dan Bernstein tells us that softupdates should not be used on filesystems that are to be used for mail delivery, as the filesystem in question cannot be relied upon to not lose mail. He is, shall i say, correct. -- "That time in Seattle... was a nightmare. I came out of it dead broke, without a house, without anything except a girlfriend and a knowledge of UNIX." "Well, that's something," Avi says. "Normally those two are mutually exclusive." --Neal Stephenson, "Cryptonomicon" _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
