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

Reply via email to