“Oats: the real reason Linux needs to address fault
tolerance.”
“What do rats and oats have to do with data integrity? With the
GNU General Public License? With a RAID array? Lots, if you are
Nick Petreley. This week’s Penguin Brief — and the famous “The
Rats and the Oatmeal” analogy — promises to do as much for
journaling filesystems as “The Cathedral and the Bazaar” did for
the open source software development model. Or something.”