From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 10 16:59:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from science.slc.edu (Science.SLC.Edu [198.83.6.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90B0637B405; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 16:59:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (from aschneid@localhost) by science.slc.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) id fBB0vPg04755; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 19:57:25 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from aschneid) Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 19:57:25 -0500 From: Anthony Schneider To: Greg Lehey Cc: Hiten Pandya , Matthew Emmerton , current@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Alfred Perlstein Subject: Re: [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20011210195725.A4697@mail.slc.edu> References: <20011210220153.50612.qmail@web21102.mail.yahoo.com> <20011210161410.L92148@elvis.mu.org> <002601c181cb$8c6a5e90$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <20011210174711.A3208@mail.slc.edu> <20011210220153.50612.qmail@web21102.mail.yahoo.com> <20011210161410.L92148@elvis.mu.org> <002601c181cb$8c6a5e90$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <20011210220153.50612.qmail@web21102.mail.yahoo.com> <20011210174711.A3208@mail.slc.edu> <20011211105617.K63585@monorchid.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="cWoXeonUoKmBZSoM" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011211105617.K63585@monorchid.lemis.com>; from grog@FreeBSD.ORG on Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 10:56:17AM +1030 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --cWoXeonUoKmBZSoM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > 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. --cWoXeonUoKmBZSoM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjwVWfEACgkQ+rDjkNht5F0tMQCfUGJdUfJ/VY4jz32OQc6zQYvq cEoAnRR/wlk0W2XKsd7zBYTwUjYx26tl =YSPd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --cWoXeonUoKmBZSoM-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message