A crash resistant UNIX file system
J. A. Anyanwu, Lindsay F. Marshall · Software Practice and Experience · 1986
Abstract The UNIX UNIX is a trademark of AT&T Bell Laboratories. operating system has been extended to support a crash resistant file system. This paper describes the modifications which were made to the UNIX kernel to support such a file system and the associated recovery facilities for maintaining the internal consistency of files despite the failure of the host processor, transient hardware failures and decay of the storage medium.