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From: Valerie Henson <val_henson@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: Fix(es) for ext2 fsync bug
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:39:29 +0000
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On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 01:30:25PM -0800, Junfeng Yang wrote:
> On 2/20/07, Valerie Henson <val_henson@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> >
> >Google. (GoogleFS runs on top of ext2.)
>
> It's surprising to know that... I guess they reply on GoogleFS's own
> replication and checksumming for consistency.

Yep, they just want a local file system with ultrafast on-line
performance.  They don't care about recovery time particularly because
of the GoogleFS replication (although I heard rumors they have some
fast fsck scheme, maybe resembling the dirty bit stuff I did last
year).

-VAL