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Re: Disk Checking under MacOS X

At 7:02 PM -0500 1/30/01, John Siracusa wrote:
>On 1/30/01 6:25 PM, Peter Bierman wrote:
>> Mac OS X uses a disk cache model that makes it much more likely that a
>> unexpected power event will cause inconsistent filesystem data. But it's
>> usually inconsistent in a way that the disk checking can fix.
>
>*cough*journaling*cough* ;)
>
>(HFS++? IBM JFS? ReiserFS? XFS? Beuller? Beuller? :)

Are you offering to write it?

IIRC,
ReiserFS == GPL
XFS == GPL

-pmb

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 >Re: Disk Checking under MacOS X (From: Peter Bierman <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Disk Checking under MacOS X (From: John Siracusa <email@hidden>)



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