[OpenAFS-devel] Re: [OpenAFS] Re: 1.6 and post-1.6 OpenAFS branch management and schedule

[Andrew Deason]

On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:59:29 -0700
Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> wrote:

> "Christopher D. Clausen" <cclausen@acm.org> writes:
>
> > I mean I occationally see NTFS errors in the event log on Windows
> > servers. Windows doesn't take the disk offline and run a chkdsk for
> > me to prevent potential errors, it allows me to try and access other
> > data and if it works there are no problems and denies access to
> > specific files or directories if there is corruption.
> 
> I'm quite sure that, after an unclean crash, your Windows server
> doesn't remount the file system without doing a consistency check.  No
> operating system treats its file systems that way.

And in particular, NTFS and other journalled filesystems have the
advantage of a journal, and probably lots of other similarly helpful
things. Guess what we do not have.

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Andrew Deason
adeason@sinenomine.net