Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 12:59:13 +0200 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gjournal and Softupdates Message-ID: <ee63ue$tel$1@sea.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <ygfirjto0z2.fsf@dominion.borderworlds.dk> References: <45066E19.2040405@kuehlbox.de> <ee5vat$fcb$1@sea.gmane.org> <ygfirjto0z2.fsf@dominion.borderworlds.dk>
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Christian Laursen wrote: > Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> writes: > >> - todays desktop drives can lie about writing data. SoftUpdates relies >> on some assumptions about when the data is physically written to >> media, and those are not always valid today > > I think journaling relies on the same assumptions. Doesn't it rely less since a journal is written sequentially, but SU expects ordering of many writes to different parts of the file system to be persistent and in sequence?
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