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Date:      Mon, 10 Dec 2001 19:57:25 -0500
From:      Anthony Schneider <aschneid@mail.slc.edu>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Hiten Pandya <hitmaster2k@yahoo.com>, Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
Subject:   Re: [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20011210195725.A4697@mail.slc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20011211105617.K63585@monorchid.lemis.com>; from grog@FreeBSD.ORG on Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 10:56:17AM %2B1030
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> On Monday, 10 December 2001 at 17:47:11 -0500, Anthony Schneider wrote:
> > I'm no expert on journaled filesystems, but isn't the freebsd softupdat=
es
> > option similar?
>=20
> No, at least not from a technical standpoint.  From a user standpoint,
> they both try to make things faster and more reliable, but they do it
> in very different ways.
>=20

Well, perhaps I should have made that clearer:  I am not an expert on either
journaled filesystems not am I an expert on FreeBSD's softupdates option,
technically or other.

> >  perhaps there could be an upgrade to offer
> > 	options SOFTERUPDATES
> > as an equal-but-different alternative to jfs?
>=20
> And what would that do?

My thoughts were that if the two were similar in effect that it might be
a relatively easy project to escalate towards achieving the same effects
in one as the other.  I understand that this is not necessarily the case.
=20
> Greg

-Anthony.


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