Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 22:09:47 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: jonathan michaels <jon@caamora.com.au> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD - A User's Point of View Message-ID: <36AB1B9B.549FDE56@newsguy.com> References: <19990124201556.E36690@freebie.lemis.com> <199901240949.BAA17434@implode.root.com> <19990124212533.B17658@caamora.com.au>
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jonathan michaels wrote: > > is this softupdates teh same as a journaling filesystem, if not is freebsd > going to evolve such a creature ? No, softupdates is not a journaling filesystem. It is a different semantics for writes for ffs. (Well, I suppose softupdates "technology" is applicable to any fs, but in our case, is ffs.) FreeBSD evolving a journaling filesystem depends on someone doing it. :-) A journaling fs has advantages over Delayed Ordered Writes fs, which is softupdates' poor cousin, so to speak (in what they do, not in who did them). So, I guess a journaling fs has advantages over softupdates, but I'd have to go back to my archives to "recall" them :-). But it is a little bit unlikely someone would trouble him/herself with a journaling fs given softupdates. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com If you sell your soul to the Devil and all you get is an MCSE from it, you haven't gotten market rate. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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