Re:Paragon submits 27k-line NTFS driver to Linux kernel
by toyg on Sunday August 23, 2020 @06:17PM
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Power loss. I mean, backing up is the literal definition of a nightly job...
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Re:Paragon submits 27k-line NTFS driver to Linux kernel
by sedatk on Sunday August 23, 2020 @11:37PM
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So, what does a journaling FS helps in a power loss? You just restart backup anyway. What’s the concern there?
Re:Paragon submits 27k-line NTFS driver to Linux kernel
by toyg on Monday August 24, 2020 @06:34AM
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The health of the backup device. Restarting a backup is one thing, having to rebuild a disk is another.
Re:Paragon submits 27k-line NTFS driver to Linux kernel
by sedatk on Monday August 24, 2020 @06:56PM
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You don't need to rebuild a disk because some clusters were orphaned. It doesn't mean disk was corrupt, it just means there is some allocated space that isn't used. It's trivial to fix too. There is no danger there. Actually, what journaling does is to rollback that allocated space. Doing that manually doesn't make it less safe. For backup scenarios exFAT is perfectly feasible.
Re:Paragon submits 27k-line NTFS driver to Linux kernel
by toyg on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @06:14AM
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What is feasible and what is desirable are two different things.
With journalling, I don't have to know or care about any of this: I restart and chances are it's all back to normal. This is desirable.
You can store your backups on stone tablets, with a machine that carves rock to write 1s and 0s and a conveyor belt that feeds new tablets. That is perfectly feasible. It is also not desirable.