On Tuesday 13 February 2007 05:39:48 Marius Gedminas wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 02:03:44PM -0800, James Sparenberg wrote: > > A lot > > of the differences in how the OS's react to a hard shutdown center around > > how they view/use a file. Windows always writes back any file it opens. > > Even if it opens it only to read. > > That does not sound right. > > Do you have a link? Let me try to find one. This was part of 4 day seminar on file systems... (mostly boring.) > > > Linux on the other hand writes back a file only > > if it changes and permissions allow writes. > > There are also atime updates which do write the inodes when you open > files for reading. Not all filesystems store access times. I don't > know whether jffs2 does, and my guess would be it doesn't. This is true but I'm so used to running everything noatime I forgot. Thanks > > > This helps prevent a lot of file > > corruption and fragmentation IMHO. (Yes I know this is an overly > > simplified explanation but I don't want to either bore or exceed my own > > ignorance *grin*) > > Marius Gedminas
