Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 22:11:01 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Sri Ramkrishna <sramkris@ichips.intel.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: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0107162207200.84539-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <20010716135629.C16516@ichips.intel.com>
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On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Sri Ramkrishna wrote: > 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. I don't have amy benchmarks personally but I expect that some others on this list may have some. Personally, I just like the perceived performance improvements compared to vanilla FFS. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Phone: +44 20 8348 6160 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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