[Info-vax] Re; Spiralog, RMS Journaling (was Re: FREESPADRIFT)

[Paul Sture]

On 2016-06-18, lawrencedo99 at gmail.com <lawrencedo99 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday, June 18, 2016 at 8:56:38 PM UTC+12, Paul Sture wrote:
>
>> Rather useful when determining how much space is required for a
>> Time Machine Backup, I imagine.
>
> Time Machine plays fast and loose with your filesystem integrity
> (multiple hard links to directories), and you pay the price in
> reliability
>
> <http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?t=1252811>.

Yes, I also went through problems with TM, but they appear to be fixed.

TM can be terribly slow in certain circumstances.  I take regular
clone copies using other software.

>> cf VMS only storing the block sizes of files rather than the number of
>> bytes; this can be problematic for utilities ported from a system which
>> has an easy/cheap way to supply the exact size in bytes.
>
> This was the example Linus Torvalds gave of why he hated VMS...

Eh?  There are many reasons to dislike an OS but 'hating VMS' for that
*perceived* problem?  Really?

>From another perspective, I ran straight into the spat between Torvalds
and Ted Ts'o when ext4 became the default on Ubuntu - this one did
produce data loss for me (until I worked out what was going on):

"Linus Torvalds Upset over Ext3 and Ext4"

<http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Linus-Torvalds-Upset-over-Ext3-and-Ext4>



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