On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 12:40:08AM +0100, Spam wrote: > > There have been some discussions about recovery abilities during > power loss if write cache is enabled. Some recovery tool I saw once > used NVRAM to store progress info so that if you had a power loss it > would be able to resume.
Typically specialized hardware, typically used for NFS (which is stateless) doing "caching" of the writes to enhance performance. > Perhaps it would be possible for Reiser4 to store some info, like > time indexes etc in NVRAMwhen it send sync commands to the disk. > This way it might be possible to avoid corruptions by simply > verifying (fsck) the data stored after that time index etc? The way the journals/logs does??
