From owner-freebsd-fs Fri Mar 1 18:40:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D44537B402 for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 18:40:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.11.6/8.11.5) with SMTP id g222c4D00111; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 21:38:04 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 21:38:04 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Bradley Kite Cc: Alfred Perlstein , reiserfs-list@namesys.com, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: Reiserfs on Freebsd In-Reply-To: <20020301224616.A12630@deathsgate.demon.co.uk> 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 Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Bradley Kite wrote: > The reason is convenience (dont want to have to reboot every time I need > that 2k file in Linux) - you may well ask why FreeBSD supports NTFS + FAT > > > Why? Softupdates does a better job than logging does. :) > [snip] > > Your assumptions are correct however your belief that it's a simple > > task may be a mistake. :) > > And also it will teach me a lot about both Linux + FreeBSD kernel > internals Unfortunately, it's probably one of those tasks where you want to go in knowing those things, too :-). Suffice to say that, despite Alfred's skepticism, there probably is interest in this in the FreeBSD community, although perhaps not for the reasons you cite. I personally would be interested in seeing the full data journalling for reliability in some environments. I won't discourage you from giving it a spin, of course :-) Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message