From: Charles Hannum (mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu)
Date: 04/17/93


From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Subject: Re: how safe is minix filesys
Date: 17 Apr 1993 15:20:31 -0400


In article <14206.1189.uupcb@satalink.com> john.will@satalink.com (John
Will) writes:
>
> Can you say UPS?

`A hardware solution to a software bug.' Yah, I can say it.

It is well known how to make crash-proof *and* fairly efficient file
systems. While I won't pick on Linux for this, I will say that I would
never consider buying a commercial system with an unreliable file
system again.

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