22 Feb
2017
22 Feb
'17
2:32 a.m.
On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 03:28:13PM -0500, Steve Nickolas wrote:
On Tue, 21 Feb 2017, Larry McVoy wrote:
The DOS file system, while stupid, was very robust in the face of crashes
(sort of had to be, he says slyly).
In terms of crash worthyness, ext2 was better. I
think the ext2 people
took the approach that they wanted to be as robust as dos but with
performance. And they made it, it's some very nice work.
Wouldn't "as robust as DOS" be a *bad* thing?