Re: Is ReiserFS really a journaling file system, or is it really just a synchronous-metadata file system like BSD FFS?

From: Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Date: Wed Mar 29 2000 - 11:24:31 EST


On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Chris Mason wrote:

>This won't solve the kernel.org problem, as it only promises that what is
>in the file has been written at least once, instead of making sure the
>entire file is there.

Of course. That solves only half of the problem: the security issue. OTOH
in a fileserver usually files gets not overwritten so reiserfs should take
care of the main concern.

For full data consistency I don't think it's possible without data
journaling.

Andrea

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