Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 29 Mar 2000 18:24:31 +0200 (CEST) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: Is ReiserFS really a journaling file system, or is it really just a synchronous-metadata file system like BSD FFS? |
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On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Chris Mason wrote:
>This won't solve the kernel.org problem, as it only promises that what is >in the file has been written at least once, instead of making sure the >entire file is there.
Of course. That solves only half of the problem: the security issue. OTOH in a fileserver usually files gets not overwritten so reiserfs should take care of the main concern.
For full data consistency I don't think it's possible without data journaling.
Andrea
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