From owner-freebsd-fs Sat Oct 30 16:33:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from gw.nectar.com (gw.nectar.com [209.98.143.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08FBC151AD for ; Sat, 30 Oct 1999 16:33:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nectar@nectar.com) Received: from bone.nectar.com (bone.nectar.com [10.0.0.105]) by gw.nectar.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4641BC008; Sat, 30 Oct 1999 18:31:49 -0500 (CDT) Received: from bone.nectar.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bone.nectar.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03DB31DA4; Sat, 30 Oct 1999 18:33:04 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.0 09/18/1999 X-PGP-RSAfprint: 00 F9 E6 A2 C5 4D 0A 76 26 8B 8B 57 73 D0 DE EE X-PGP-RSAkey: http://www.nectar.com/nectar-rsa.txt X-PGP-DSSfprint: AB2F 8D71 A4F4 467D 352E 8A41 5D79 22E4 71A2 8C73 X-PGP-DHfprint: 2D50 12E5 AB38 60BA AF4B 0778 7242 4460 1C32 F6B1 X-PGP-DH-DSSkey: http://www.nectar.com/nectar-dh-dss.txt From: Jacques Vidrine To: Don Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: References: Subject: Re: journaling UFS and LFS Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 18:33:03 -0500 Message-Id: <19991030233304.03DB31DA4@bone.nectar.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 30 October 1999 at 18:51, Don wrote: [snip] > Having a journaled file system has another benefit and that is market > recognition. The corporate world will be far more likely to embrace > FreeBSD if it has a journaled file system than if it has softupdates. Huh? Have you actually heard anyone say, ``Well, we were going to use FreeBSD, but darned if we found out at the last minute that it doesn't have a journaled file system. We decided to use KY Brand UNIX instead.'' I think ``far more likely'' is a stretch. > While I think this is a silly reason, it will make a difference. Trying to > explain to a corporate IT manager that softupdates "is as good as or > better than a journaled file system" wont fly. Most corporate IT managers wouldn't know a filesystem if they were bitten by one. -- Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / nectar@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message