Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 18:34:55 -0400 From: Chang Song <song@zk3.dec.com> To: Don <don@calis.blacksun.org> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: journaling UFS and LFS Message-ID: <381B728F.82963E1A@zk3.dec.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910301210360.43638-100000@calis.blacksun.org>
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Don wrote:
>
> > is anybody working on adding journaling to the (Free)BSD ufs - or
> > are there any docs in that direction avalibale - any papers or
> > so ? how much harder this is getting due to the complex
> > FreeBSD vm/buffercache and soft updates ? - is
> > anybody intereseted in starting to work on
> > this ?
> This is exactly the project which was just starting to be discussed on
> freebsd-fs. There are several people who would love to work on this and as
> long as the FreeBSD community is going to support. If this project is
> going to be supported then it will be done.
>
> Softupdates is definitely a viable solution however it does not address
> several issues and the license is not a BSD license so it makes me
> uncomfortable.
Could you let me know what SoftUpdate does not address?
Thank you.
Is jornaling only solution to removal of fsck at boot time?
Softupdate not only address required boot time fsck on crash and but also
addresses tighter consistency of UFS.
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