Hi,
extract from the fossil paper:
The block cache uses soft updates [1] to ensure that the on-disk file
system is always self-consistent. Thus there is no halt console
command and no need to check a file system that was shut down without
halting.
Fossil does have a halt command and does
i'd have thought that soft updates ensure consistency,
but a halt command ensures that all the changes are actually written.
Folks:
GSoC progresses well. We have a preliminary slot allocation which
should be finalized on wednesday. The list of accepted student
proposals comes out a week from today. We're having a mentors meeting
tomorrow to resolve any internal conflicts, and there's a GSoC-wide
meeting for admins to
On Mon Apr 13 18:55:24 EDT 2009, fors...@terzarima.net wrote:
i'd have thought that soft updates ensure consistency,
but a halt command ensures that all the changes are actually written.
i think your point is a good one and definately true
(and begs the question of disk caches), but given the
Is it?
It's probably a statistical certainty based on
9-fans being a fairly fixed-size group, which it does seem to be and
human beings being remarkably similar in their ability to forget things.
Max kudos to Russ as usual for spotting it.
Let's wait another approx 4 years less 3 weeks and see
