Typically if a system needs to be restarted and fsck is run to prevent file corruption, a Unix reboot can take several hours, dramatically reducing system availability. VxFS provides journalling, which is based on proven database methodology that allows for the rollback of transactions not yet completed.
Recovery occurs in seconds rather than minutes or hours.
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