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Subject: Re: Large File System?
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On 08/08/06, Martin Hepworth <maxsec@gmail.com> wrote:

> Softupdates are the FreeBSD equivalent. From my point of view they perform
> better than a traditional journaling FS (do a google search for the original
> usenix papers on these).
>

Journalling means not having to fsck the file system in the event of an
unclean shutdown. So it's wrong to describe softupdates as equivalent. It's
not.

I also find they speed up I/O quite alot, esp for fast changing filesystems
> like mail spools.
>

Certainly I have found using softupdates to be considerably faster than
without.

martin
>

Frem.