Re: soft update vs journaling?

[Suleiman Souhlal]

John Richard Moser wrote:
> Yeah, the huge TB fsck thing became a problem.  I wonder still if it'd
> be useful for small vfat file systems (floppies, usb drives); nobody has
> led me to believe it's definitely feasible to not corrupt meta-data in
> this way.

Please note that you don't *HAVE* to run fsck at every reboot. All 
background fsck does is reclaim unused blocks.

-- Suleiman
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