On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 03:34:44PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> It is true that ext2 isn't good because the file system may not recover,
> but BSD UFS isn't a journalled file system, but does guarantee file
> system recovery after a crash --- it is especially good using soft
> updates.

Sorry.  I usually write "journalled or equivalent" for this reason. 
I think UFS with soft updates is a good example of this.  You also
don't need complete journalling in most cases -- metadata is probably
sufficient, given fsync.

A

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