On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 08:15:20PM +0200, Peter L. Peres wrote:
> 
> I would like to ask from the list its opinion wrt. recovery of soft 
> crashes (irregular shutdown f.ex.) of ffs partitions on i386. Is it as 
> robust as, less robust than, or better than other equivalent filesystems 
> (ext2, reiser, vfat).

With the default of the respective OS, ffs is more robust than ext2
(because ext2 is mounted async by default on linux). But then, the
disk's write-back cache can defeat some of the algorithms filesystems use
to ensure data integrity. There was an interesting discussion on tech-kern
about this some time ago.

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