Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 06:26:17 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> To: "Martin Hepworth" <maxsec@gmail.com> Cc: Atom Powers <atom.powers@gmail.com>, Freminlins <freminlins@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Large File System? Message-ID: <ef10de9a0608090426i5539b279y76e0e2865adb372c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <72cf361e0608081151p68feb6b2lf8badd518cf46a9c@mail.gmail.com> References: <df9ac37c0608071513n7fdfc928r9d1aa3b9e8edfaec@mail.gmail.com> <ygfzmegm97g.fsf@dominion.borderworlds.dk> <df9ac37c0608071636j2f28bc6en66e985d528e8d85f@mail.gmail.com> <eeef1a4c0608080117r22d05716x1e623dd6ee2cf573@mail.gmail.com> <72cf361e0608081151p68feb6b2lf8badd518cf46a9c@mail.gmail.com>
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On 8/8/06, Martin Hepworth <maxsec@gmail.com> wrote: > On 8/8/06, Freminlins <freminlins@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > <snip> > > The single most important thing missing for me in FreeBSD is a journalling > > file system as I would use it on every box. > > > > <snip> > > > > 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). > > I also find they speed up I/O quite alot, esp for fast changing filesystems > like mail spools. > You've never had to fsck a 2TB+ array, have you?... This is why we DEMAND journaling UFS2..... or ZFS. -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/
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