[TUHS] inodes, inumbers, and versions
Larry McVoy via TUHS
tuhs at tuhs.org
Sat Feb 7 04:33:12 AEST 2026
> It wasn???t until later (Berkeley, I think) that someone overhauled the
> filesystem code to assure that things were ordered in a way that never left
> the filesystem in a degenerate state on crashing.
That feature was not in the first UFS in BSD nor was it in SunOS. Want to
nuke your filesystem? Untar a tarball and pull power while that was running.
Left a huge mess.
ZFS did something about this.
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