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From: bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org (Christoph Badura)
Subject: Re: FYI.. benchmarks on linux and 386bsd
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1993 01:46:10 GMT
Message-ID: <CF9zKy.D8s@flatlin.ka.sub.org>
References: <2CB12A8D.17397@news.service.uci.edu> 	<MYCROFT.93Oct6054959@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> 	<29klpf$8ae@kralizec.zeta.org.au> 	<HSU.93Oct15200852@laphroaig.cs.hut.fi> <DERAADT.93Oct15124106@newt.fsa.ca>
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In <DERAADT.93Oct15124106@newt.fsa.ca> deraadt@fsa.ca (Theo de Raadt) writes:

>fsck and the filesystem are supposed to work together; the filesystem
>must gaurantee that writes (especially during directory operations)
>are done in a repeatable order so that fsck can figure out where in
>the sequence of writes the crash occurred. fsck's purpose is simple:
>it is supposed to back out of those unfinished operations.

So who said that these ordered writes need to be done synchronously?
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