[Eug-lug] Gentoo hardened

[Jacob Meuser]

On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 10:55:58AM -0700, Bob Miller wrote:
> larry price wrote:
> 
> > > Heh, 2^10 small reads and writes, then pull the plug.  How long did the
> > > reads and writes take, and did the filesystem get corrupted.
> > >
> > Or N reads/writes/close  on /mnt/tmp;  umount /mnt/tmp; mount
> > /mnt/tmp; check files
> 
> This completely misses what Jake is talking about.
> 
> One major difference between *BSD and Linux is the filesystem.
> Linux's ext3 uses much more aggressive write caching than BSD's FFS.
> The BSD guys say that their file system is more robust in system
> crashes.
> 
> That's why Jake wants to pull the plug - to force a system crash,
> and demonstrate (he hopes) that Linux loses more files than BSD.
> (I personally am skeptical based on my own experience with ext3,
> but it would be good to see what Jake's test shows.)

Actually, I'm just curious to see what would happen :)

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