Quoting <20010508104350.B712 at lbedford.org>
by Liam Bedford <lbedford at lbedford.org>:
> don't rely on a Journalling file system to prevent data loss.
>> In the case of NTFS, it only guarantees that the filesystem will be in
> a consistent state, not that data you wrote to a file will be there.
The same is true of unix logging filesystems. Does Reiserfs do
something different?
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