Re: soft update vs journaling?

[John Richard Moser]

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Suleiman Souhlal wrote:
> 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.
> 

Duly noted, now can you answer my question?

> -- Suleiman
> 

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