From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jul 23 15:28:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E63437B9E1; Sun, 23 Jul 2000 15:28:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id PAA66902; Sun, 23 Jul 2000 15:28:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 15:28:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: Joe McGuckin Cc: james@targetnet.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Re[2]: Journaling Filesystem ? In-Reply-To: <200007232043.NAA36306@monk.via.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Joe McGuckin wrote: > The big win with a journaling FS is when you have to reboot the system. > > With Softupdates, you still have to fsck. On a large FS (say half a > terabyte) that can take hours. No you don't. Your filesystem will be in a consistent state except for blocks which are marked used but are not, so you can fsck in the background at the expense of not having all of your free space available at startup. Having said that, I don't know that this procedure has been well tested in practise, so you're advised to use caution when testing it :-) Kris -- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message