HAMMER Crash Recovery

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Apr 25, 2008 4:43 AM EDT
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"HAMMER is going to be a little unstable as I commit the crash recovery code," began DragonFly BSD creator Matthew Dillon, adding, "I'm about half way through it." He went on to list what's left for crash recovery to work with HAMMER, his new clustering filesystem, "I have to flush the undo buffers out before the meta-data buffers; then I have to flush the volume header so mount can see the updated undo info; then I have to flush out the meta-data buffers that the UNDO info refers to; and, finally, the mount code must scan the UNDO buffers and perform any required UNDOs."

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