> From: Brandon Allbery [mailto:allber...@gmail.com] > > OSes, maybe ("designed to" and "it works" are often not on speaking terms > with each other). Applications, far too often not so much.
Perhaps "Designed and tested" would be a more compelling way to phrase that? I know crash consistency testing is included in SQLite, in order to provide assurance that their ACID compliance is done correctly. I have a hard time believing other databases claim ACID compliance and *don't* test for it. But I haven't specifically checked them. I also haven't specifically checked for the existence of crash tests in extfs, zfs, ntfs, hfs+. But I know they all have journaling or intent logging, and I find it implausible to believe they *don't* do tests. And I know I haven't seen an inconsistent filesystem since FAT, ext2, and OS9. It's been a *very* long time since I thought there was anything to be concerned about, WRT system crashes resulting in a broken filesystem. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
