SVR4 ufs file system reliability

[Tim Wright]

In <1630 at svin02.info.win.tue.nl> debra at svin02.info.win.tue.nl (Paul de Bra) writes:
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>I have experimented with sVr4.0 version 2.0 and can only say that the
>ufs file system is horribly unreliable. Shortly after reading about
>100 mbytes from a tape (but well after the time the automatic update
>program waits to write the stuff out to the disk) I got a panic,
>and fsck went on and on complaining about my file systems...
>I went back to sVr3.2.
>Apparently the sVr4.0 ufs file system doesn't get sync-ed properly
>by the automatic syncing deamon...

Are you sure? When you say 2.0, what AT&T build level are you talking about ?
I remember there were problems in the ufs filesystem (including fsck), but I
think they have been ironed out subsequently (can't remember the details).
I should be *very* surprised that if the sync stuff didn't work.

Tim
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