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Date:      Wed, 12 Feb 2003 20:50:59 -0800
From:      Darren Pilgrim <dmp@pantherdragon.org>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>, David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU>, Daxbert <daxbert_news@dweebsoft.com>, Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>, Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Why is there no JFS?
Message-ID:  <3E4B2433.70301@pantherdragon.org>
In-Reply-To: <3E4B138F.26E32E75@mindspring.com>
References:  <3E4A5B77.5080103@ant.uni-bremen.de> <3E4A863E.2030801@potentialtech.com> <3E4A8EF5.1070308@ant.uni-bremen.de> <3E4A9712.8030609@potentialtech.com> <3E4AA331.5040701@ant.uni-bremen.de> <3E4AA734.5040102@potentialtech.com> <045401c2d2db$f9d45c30$0a0aa8c0@dweebsoft.com> <20030212225631.GA10375@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <005801c2d2eb$aa5fae60$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <3E4ADDDE.5040208@pantherdragon.org> <3E4B138F.26E32E75@mindspring.com>

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Terry Lambert wrote:
> Darren Pilgrim wrote:
> 
>>Not really.  A properly laid-out filesystem hierarchy will result in no
>>writes to / (except for installworld/kernel).  That removes the problem
>>that journalling addresses, and is probably why softupdates is disabled
>>by default for /.  For large, active filesystems, journalling would be a
>>big improvement when you had to run a foreground fsck.
> 
> 
> Soft updates are disable on / by default because of the chicken
> and egg problem of runing tunefs on /.

If that's the problem, then why doesn't sysinstall enable it by default 
when partitioning for a new install?


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