Matt Thomas wrote:
> 
> Not quite right.  The buffer cache/VFS layer is modified to redirect synchronous
> data writes to the Prestoserve NVRAM and schedule async writes from the NVRAM.

  That sounds like a more sensible way to do it.

> Actually, fsck took care of it under ULTRIX.  It would apply the changes from
> Prestoserve NVRAM before actually trying to verify the disk structure.

  Jeez--this thing gets more wacky all the time!
  Sounds like a lot of work to get it into NetBSD, although I guess the
restoring could be done by something other than fsck.

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