Re: Recovering from bad disk ...

On Mar 10, 2011, at 10:17 PM, Scott Ribe wrote:

> On Mar 10, 2011, at 10:12 PM, William H. Magill wrote:
> 
>> OSX = micro 
> 
> Sort of, kind of, but not really ;-)
> 
> All the stuff from a monolithic kernel is there in the OS X kernel. It starts with a microkernel, but adds the other bits into the kernel process, rather than separate processes with IPC...

I saw a video online of a woman making a case at some conference that XNU was a hybrid kernel.

In my case I was trying to tip toe around the merit arguments of the kernels, rather that a major point of any file system and kernel is data integrity. If the kernel is going to treat things willy nilly, fakak things up as the gate keeper, it hardly matters if higher level processes try to do good things.


Chris Murphy