gjournal and Softupdates

[Christian Laursen]

Ivan Voras <ivoras at fer.hr> writes:

> - todays desktop drives can lie about writing data. SoftUpdates relies
> on some assumptions about when the data is physically written to
> media, and those are not always valid today

I think journaling relies on the same assumptions.

However, with journaling you can have filesystem corruption and not know
about it. With fsck, bg or not, at least you will know.

-- 
Christian Laursen