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From: rick@seismo.CSS.GOV (Rick Adams)
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Subject: Re: OSF and operating system research, and other topics
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Date: 24 Nov 88 05:34:39 GMT
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>   * File system meta-data managed with DB techniques: journal,
>         atomic commit;  fsck should never be necessary again.

It is a truly impressive piece of software that can prevent hardware
errors from damaging data on the disk. I think I'll keep a copy
of fsck around anyway.

---rick