Re: safe file systems
Harald Milz (hm@seneca.muc.de)
Fri, 26 Sep 1997 02:15:00 +0200
Steven N. Hirsch (shirsch@ibm.net) wrote:
>
> At work we use JFS on IBM RS/6k boxes and Advfs on Digital Unix. AFAIK,
> they are highly tolerant of the abuse you describe.
Not necessarily. Open files are truncated to zero length on power loss or
RESET. Only the meta data is handled in a transaction oriented manner to
make sure the filesystem is consistent.