[Gllug] Linux equivalent of OS X filesystem Directory

Alain Williams addw at phcomp.co.uk
Wed Nov 19 10:38:54 UTC 2008


On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 10:30:43AM +0000, gunzip wrote:

> It's not the filesystem per se which bothers me as OS X Extended (HFS+) is a 
> *nix journaled filesystem of sorts at the end of the day. It's just this 
> Directory vulernability which bothers me. I'm interested in whether Linux is 
> vulnerable under similar hardware circumstances, ie. bad sectors creeping 
> into the location of the filesystem directory or equivalent.

Is there an operating system that is invulnerable to this sort of thing ?
ZFS provides checksumming of blocks - so an error can be detected, I don't know
what it can do about it. The use of RAID can provide some protection I suppose.

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