From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jan 30 21:29:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.uniserve.com (mail2.uniserve.com [204.244.156.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83D0B14CFC for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2000 21:29:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@uniserve.com) Received: from shell.uniserve.ca ([204.244.186.218]) by mail2.uniserve.com with esmtp (Exim 3.13 #1) id 12F9Oh-0002lQ-00; Sun, 30 Jan 2000 21:29:12 -0800 Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 21:29:06 -0800 (PST) From: Tom X-Sender: tom@shell.uniserve.ca To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group , Ataualpa Albert Carmo Braga , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: JFS In-Reply-To: <3893D404.189AA11A@newsguy.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > > Due to the lack of interest, FreeBSD's LFS has fallen into disrepair > > over the years. With the implementation of softupdates in FreeBSD I > > don't think there is any need for LFS any more. > > Repeat that over and over the next time you wait fsck finish a 40 Gb > filesystem checkup, and see if you manage to convince yourself of that. Actually, one of the goals of the softupdates development is a fsck'less filesystem. I'm not sure how this is to be achieved. Probably a metadata journal, though that is just speculation. All the work on metadata update ordering in softupdates would probably apply very nicely to a journal. > -- > Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) > dcs@newsguy.com > dcs@freebsd.org > > "If you consider our help impolite, you should see the manager." Tom Uniserve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message