From owner-freebsd-fs Mon Jul 16 13:55:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B73037B408 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 13:55:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from [62.49.251.130] (helo=herring.nlsystems.com) by anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 15MFOR-000D6C-0X; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 21:55:03 +0100 Received: from herring (herring [10.0.0.2]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f6GKrl784902; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 21:53:48 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 21:53:47 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Sri Ramkrishna Cc: Alfred Perlstein , Jason Francis , Subject: Re: Porting a new filesystem to FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <20010716134550.B16516@ichips.intel.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Sri Ramkrishna wrote: > It's like wheat germ stuff that are popular in the south. It's somehwat > like oats. They usually have it with a lot of butter or some jelly. > It's mostly tasteless. Sounds a lot like porridge :-(. > > To keep this on topic though, I remember some talk about journalling > filesystems and getting that. Hopefully we'll have one one of these > days. With disks getting larger and larger (EMC has 181G drives) it's > getting harder not to go with a journalling type of filesystem. In > any case, it's just a off hand comment. We'll get there I'm sure. Actually, back on topic, I think that FFS+softupdatess+background fsck gives virtually all the benefits of journalled filesystems. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Phone: +44 20 8348 6160 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message