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Date:      Mon, 16 Jul 2001 13:56:29 -0700
From:      Sri Ramkrishna <sramkris@ichips.intel.com>
To:        Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
Cc:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@sneakerz.org>, Jason Francis <jasonf@citynet.net>, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Porting a new filesystem to FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20010716135629.C16516@ichips.intel.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0107162151570.84539-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>; from dfr@nlsystems.com on Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 09:53:47PM %2B0100
References:  <20010716134550.B16516@ichips.intel.com> <Pine.BSF.4.33.0107162151570.84539-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>

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On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 09:53:47PM +0100, Doug Rabson wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Sri Ramkrishna wrote:
> 
> > It's like wheat germ stuff that are popular in the south.  It's somehwat
> > like oats.  They usually have it with a lot of butter or some jelly.
> > It's mostly tasteless.
> 
> Sounds a lot like porridge :-(.

It's much worse. ;)

> >
> > To keep this on topic though, I remember some talk about journalling
> > filesystems and getting that.  Hopefully we'll have one one of these
> > days.  With disks getting larger and larger (EMC has 181G drives) it's
> > getting harder not to go with a journalling type of filesystem.  In
> > any case, it's just a off hand comment.   We'll get there I'm sure.
> 
> Actually, back on topic, I think that FFS+softupdatess+background fsck
> gives virtually all the benefits of journalled filesystems.
> 

Do you have benchmarks or something I can look at?  I'd be interested
in the data.  

	sri

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