Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 03:50:04 -0700 From: "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> To: "Martin Hepworth" <maxsec@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Large File System? Message-ID: <ef10de9a0608100350q2167b035s14acfefc8ef1e534@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <72cf361e0608100248l4d27b74fs7d34f58288805d9c@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> <ef10de9a0608090426i5539b279y76e0e2865adb372c@mail.gmail.com> <44D9D208.9080505@infracaninophile.co.uk> <72cf361e0608100248l4d27b74fs7d34f58288805d9c@mail.gmail.com>
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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 <maxsec@gmail.com> 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 <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> 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/
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