On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Florian Klaempfl wrote:
> Michael Van Canneyt schrieb: > > > > And if methods 1 & 2 are "unsafe", then I think that there is a fundamental > > bug in the filesystem (I never believed "journaling" filesystems can work > > 100% correctly in the first place), > > Journaling means only: the file system is always in an internally > consistent state It does not mean that it doesn't lose data! In this definition, yes. But I find that rather limited :-) > > > despite what Theodore T'so says. > > > > The filesystem should just work. The standard application programmer should > > never have to take into account the eventualities described there. > > The filesystem works. It failes only if power is turned off or the > system crashes. But those are eventualities the programmer should not > take into account ;) That is exactly what I meant... Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal