Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 17:48:18 -0600 From: Christopher Farley <chris@northernbrewer.com> To: BSD Freak <bsd-freak@mbox.com.au> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Journaling File Systems and Soft Updates confusion Message-ID: <20011206174816.A750@northernbrewer.com> In-Reply-To: <63ba6e639af8.639af863ba6e@mbox.com.au> References: <63ba6e639af8.639af863ba6e@mbox.com.au>
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BSD Freak (bsd-freak@mbox.com.au) wrote: > FreeBSD's ffs curently cannot do this (avoid an fsck) with or without > soft updates. Soft updates of FreeBSD is merely there to increase > performance. This is not true. Soft updates ensures that the filesystem is always kept consistent. The only reason to run fsck after a system crash is to reclaim lost blocks and inodes, FreeBSD-current already has an fsck that runs in the background, so that when you bring the system back up, you do not have to slog through a lengthy manual fsck. I'm not sure when this is planned for the -STABLE branch, but it has to be coming eventually! > I may have this all wrong (someone please correct me if I have) but > soft updates is NOT an equivalent to a journaling file system. True, Soft Updates != Journaling File System. But for most people, it's a functional substitute. -- Christopher Farley www.northernbrewer.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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