[openbeos] Re: BeOS, BFS discussion on theregister

> > Cool to know that journaling isn't such a big deal (in term of code
> > complexity). 1000 lines of code. I'm kinda surprised ... ;-)
> 
> Not only that. OpenBFS will be completelly working *WITHOUT* any 
> journaling at all. We have a transaction class that will be 
> responsible 
> for it but right now all it does is write the data directly to disk. 
> When everything else is working ans tested, we will add the 
> journaling 
> code.

I may add that if anything went wrong now (i.e. running out of disk 
space - it doesn't have to be a crash), the file system may be in a 
strange state with defect inodes around and stuff - those problems will 
go away with journaling.

Adios...
   Axel.



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