Subject: Re: File system performance on i386
To: Christoph Hellwig <chhellwig@gmx.net>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: tech-perform
Date: 02/23/2001 21:52:14
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 07:34:21PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> [...]
> 
> P.S. ok, stop the flame - softupdates and journaling are there, it shouldn't really
> matter - especially as ffs derivates have _never_ guranteed 100% data integrity...

No file system guranteed 100% data integrity, unless you use fsync()
(or sync writes, which is almost the same). You'll be sure you'll always
recover your data once fsync() has returned (well, not on linux - but for
other systems I tried it's true).

--
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
--