Tom Van Vleck sent me some notes on on-line file system repair in Multics. While it seems highly unlikely we can actually implement these ideas in a Linux file system, I thought there might be some useful considerations or lessons learned from their experience. I simply haven't had the time to read the article and so I'm forwarding it to this list in the hopes that someone will have time to read it and bring to our attention any interesting data from it. Thanks! -VAL ----- Forwarded message from Tom Van Vleck <thvv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ----- Hello Val, The draft salvager article is at http://www.multicians.org/salvagers.html It starts out ok and gradually gets incoherent. Suggestions welcome on what is unclear to you. That article links to the Multics Storage System PLM, known as AN61. This is a very well written document about the internals of that long ago virtual memory system, including its file system support. I have been planning to OCR this pdf document so that it can become visible to search engines and be of more use. It will be interesting to see how Linux file systems evolve. With different requirements and different constraints, they will surely go in directions we couldn't have imagined back in the 70s. regards, tom ----- End forwarded message ----- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
