[TUHS] The evolution of Unix facilities and architecture

Harald Arnesen harald at skogtun.org
Fri May 12 18:15:49 AEST 2017


Dave Horsfall [2017-05-12 01:47]:

> On Thu, 11 May 2017, Larry McVoy wrote:
>> Try the same thing with Linux.  The file system will come back, starting 
>> with, I believe, ext2.
> 
> That's a journalled FS, isn't it?  In which case the transactions get
> replayed.

No, journalling started with ext3. However, ext2 was (and is) a very
solid fs, which survived many power-outs and crashes when I used it back
in the 90s.
-- 
Hilsen Harald



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