From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 10 10:50:16 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96CFF16A4DF for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 10:50:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.190]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A75143D46 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 10:50:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id g2so572769nfe for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 03:50:05 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=OgO6EyNubvGM9EDxmT60AW20nVO2fXow1FzLphQiJN7c394SHA1GezApipdBURIDhM8FFlr4AGcclNzEH82FnaBOctiw9c77/+RJVYKah9USFTMxZgvZieVWTKlFCHbjUUFWZwLRN4mlduDWCoi0ipe9EhOOt6NM2u6LHpdYN4Q= Received: by 10.78.120.6 with SMTP id s6mr1168780huc; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 03:50:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.143.11 with HTTP; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 03:50:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 03:50:04 -0700 From: "Nikolas Britton" To: "Martin Hepworth" In-Reply-To: <72cf361e0608100248l4d27b74fs7d34f58288805d9c@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <72cf361e0608081151p68feb6b2lf8badd518cf46a9c@mail.gmail.com> <44D9D208.9080505@infracaninophile.co.uk> <72cf361e0608100248l4d27b74fs7d34f58288805d9c@mail.gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Large File System? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 10:50:16 -0000 The advantage is never having to run fsck again... on large filesystems this takes a long long long time. 16 hours would not be unheard of. On 8/10/06, Martin Hepworth wrote: > Hmm > > I wonder what the advantages of this over softupdates are. Never really saw > the need for the google summer of code project etc for this when we have > softupdates.... > > But I guess I must be missing something.... > > -- > martin > > On 8/9/06, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > > > Nikolas Britton wrote: > > > > > You've never had to fsck a 2TB+ array, have you?... This is why we > > > DEMAND journaling UFS2..... or ZFS. > > > > Ask and ye shall receive. > > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2006-August/064932.html > > > > Cheers, > > > > Matthew > > > > -- > > Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard > > Flat 3 > > PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate > > Kent, CT11 9PW > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/