From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 28 11:17: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0D4E154FE for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 11:16:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA26386; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 13:35:16 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 13:35:14 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: "Paul L. Poynter" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD Software RAID 0 and 1? Journaling file system? In-Reply-To: <00f801be9196$7ec76030$7ba493ce@poyntman.rorke.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Paul L. Poynter wrote: > Will I have the ability to mirror my boot drives with bsd? > > Is the filesystem "journaling" like IRIX XFS? > (if the filesystem needs to be fsck'd and the filesystem is a very large raid, this may take several hours - don't want this) unfortunatly at this time i'm afraid FreeBSD doesn't offer this functionality, we DO have raid support, just not fast fsck because of logging. btw, softupdates is _almost_ metadata logging, anyone care to describe what it would take to make fsck and softupdates co-operate to check point a filesystem? thanks, -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message