On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 10:55:58AM -0700, Bob Miller wrote: > larry price wrote: > > > > Heh, 2^10 small reads and writes, then pull the plug. How long did the > > > reads and writes take, and did the filesystem get corrupted. > > > > > Or N reads/writes/close on /mnt/tmp; umount /mnt/tmp; mount > > /mnt/tmp; check files > > This completely misses what Jake is talking about. > > One major difference between *BSD and Linux is the filesystem. > Linux's ext3 uses much more aggressive write caching than BSD's FFS. > The BSD guys say that their file system is more robust in system > crashes. > > That's why Jake wants to pull the plug - to force a system crash, > and demonstrate (he hopes) that Linux loses more files than BSD. > (I personally am skeptical based on my own experience with ext3, > but it would be good to see what Jake's test shows.)
Actually, I'm just curious to see what would happen :) -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
