system crash

Webopedia Term of the Day: Journaled File System Defined

Linux Today  Mon, 06/29/2009 - 04:38

Webopedia: "A journaled file system is a file system in which the hard disk maintains data integrity in the event of a system crash or if the system is otherwise halted abnormally."


 

Filesystems: Data Preservation, fsync, and Benchmarks Pt. 2

Linux Today  Tue, 06/02/2009 - 06:33

Linux.com: "In Part 1 of this three-part series, we began to examine the potential data loss issue on system crash when running the ext4 filesystem.

In Part 2, we'll examine benchmarks and the price of data consistency."