On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, Hubert Feyrer wrote:

# 
# Reading http://www.mckusick.com./softdep/index.html, I wonder if we can
# dispense fsck(8) now too, after update(8)?

GAAAAAAH No don't do that!

Do you *really* trust your filesystem to be in a sane state following
a power outage during a writeback?

rename(2) claims atomicity, and within the context of a running system
it is, but even if power fails, that atom may be split.  Do you think
a power outage will have any more sympathy for a soft/trickle update?

				--*greywolf;
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