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/Solution #1: The File System Checker
Solution #1: The File System Checker
In this lesson, we look at a solution to fix the crash consistency problem by devising the file system checker.
We'll cover the following...
What is fsck
Early file systems took a simple approach to crash consistency. Basically, they decided to let inconsistencies happen and then fix them later (when rebooting). A classic example of this lazy approach is found in a tool that does this:
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