From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Jan 3 22:48:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mail5.speakeasy.net (mail5.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4305937B436 for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 22:47:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 13593 invoked from network); 4 Jan 2002 06:47:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO laptop.baldwin.cx) ([64.81.54.73]) (envelope-sender ) by mail5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 4 Jan 2002 06:47:47 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <7mn0zu29op.wl@waterblue.imgsrc.co.jp> Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 22:47:32 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Jun Kuriyama Subject: RE: Please clarify English sentence Cc: Documentation Team , alex@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 04-Jan-02 Jun Kuriyama wrote: > > I'm translating this sentence, but I cannot understand "analyzing, > caching and rewriting or reordering" means. > > Can someone clarify this sentence to easy English? I don't think I can fit it one sentence, but maybe this will help: > ----- >
  • Soft Updates allow improved file system performance > without sacrificing safety and reliability, by intelligently > analyzing, caching and rewriting or reordering disk > meta-data > operations.
    • > ----- First off, this sentence is bogus. The comma before by is wrong. It really should be more than one sentence anyway: Also, soft updates as an entity is sinuglar, not plural. It's one specific algorithm. Soft Updates allows improved file system performance without sacrificing safety and reliability. It analyzes meta-data filesystem operations to avoid having to perform all of those operations synchronously. Instead, it maintains internal state about pending meta-data operations and uses this information to cache meta-data, rewrite meta-data operations to combine subsequent operations on the same files, and reorder meta-data operations so that they may be processed more efficiently. Does that help? The trick is that "rewrite or reorder" is one entity along with "cache" and "analyze", but it doesn't read well as you point out. :) -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message