On Mar 9, 2011, at 3:23 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> On Mar 6, 2011, at 9:50 AM, Neil Laubenthal wrote: > >> Linux, the whore that is is being just a kernel, doesn't do any of that >> because that's not the responsibility of a kernel, data integrity, that's >> the responsibility of the higher level systems. > > Absurd. File system support is part of the Linux kernel. Data integrity is a > primary feature of any file system. Of course it is the responsibility of a > kernel to maintain, not jeopardize data integrity. There are demonstrably, > unarguably superior safer file systems than jhfs+ - but this is not even > relevant because this was a block level read example - file system is > irrelevant at that level.
Aha... the good old ... monolithic vs micro kernel debate ... :) Linux = monolithinc OSX = micro T.T.F.N. William H. Magill [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
