On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 02:03:44PM -0800, James Sparenberg wrote: > A lot > of the differences in how the OS's react to a hard shutdown center around how > they view/use a file. Windows always writes back any file it opens. Even if > it opens it only to read.
That does not sound right.
Do you have a link?
> Linux on the other hand writes back a file only
> if it changes and permissions allow writes.
There are also atime updates which do write the inodes when you open
files for reading. Not all filesystems store access times. I don't
know whether jffs2 does, and my guess would be it doesn't.
> This helps prevent a lot of file
> corruption and fragmentation IMHO. (Yes I know this is an overly simplified
> explanation but I don't want to either bore or exceed my own ignorance
> *grin*)
Marius Gedminas
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