low power actions?

pgf at laptop.org pgf at laptop.org
Fri Jul 11 14:58:27 EDT 2008


chris wrote:
 > Hi,
 > 
 >    > What would it take to put in a journaling filesystem?
 > 
 > The "j" in "jffs2" stands for "journalling".

to expand -- i believe the shutdown-inspired corruption people
are worried about is not filesystem corruption, but application
corruption -- if the activity doesn't completely write its state
before the system is shut down, no amount of filesystem
protection will help.

paul
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 paul fox, pgf at laptop.org



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