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Kirk just left about 5 minutes ago so I just got to read my mail

we got soft-updates working this afternoon..

see the discussion in -hackers for more info.

julian

roark_hilomen_at_meridian@meridian-data.com wrote:
> 
> I was searching for "Soft Updates" implementation and found references to it in
> the Filesystem newsgroup.  Unfortunately it only mentioned that OpenBSD was
> implementing it.  It slightly hinted that FreeBSD may have it soon, but no
> timeframe or release number (2.2.5? 3.0? 3.0+?)
> 
> I am definitely interested in the "Soft Update" enhancemnet to the filesystem.
> I would like to know its availability or current state of development.
> 
> Also, since soft updates tend to delay "writes", on a critical failure (system
> crash, panic, power outage), what provisions of data integrity have been
> implemented?  Is an intent log written out?  Has fsck changed?
> 
> If it is not in FreeBSD, can some one direct me to more information?
> 
> Thank you