Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 19:47:00 -0600 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> To: babkin@freebsd.org Cc: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>, Mike Bristow <mike@urgle.com>, "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Found NFS data corruption bug... (was Re: NFS: How to make FreeBSD fall on its face in one easy step ) Message-ID: <20011218194700.S59831@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <3C1FF11B.8F0C21FE@bellatlantic.net>; from babkin@bellatlantic.net on Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 08:44:59PM -0500 References: <200112130608.fBD689K49906@apollo.backplane.com> <20011213043851.Y56723-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> <20011218120531.A97576@lindt.urgle.com> <20011218184413.GB57822@dan.emsphone.com> <3C1FF11B.8F0C21FE@bellatlantic.net>
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* Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net> [011218 19:45] wrote:
> Dan Nelson wrote:
> >
> > In the last episode (Dec 18), Mike Bristow said:
> > > I suspect that the background fsck[1] that's available in FreeBSD-current
> > > fits the bill just as well as JFS or XFS - and I'll also bet that it'll
> > > be available in a FreeBSD-release before I'd trust data to a port of
> > > JFS or XFS.
> >
> > The problems with a background fsck is you still have to run fsck,
> > which can take 10 minutes on a large volume when it's idle, and who
>
> By the way the journaling filesystems don't neccessary guarantee that
> you won't need fsck: for example, if VXFS crashes at a particularly
> bad moment, it will require you to do "fsck -o full" which is as slow
> as the fsck on traditional UFS.
Yeah, but that's not mentioned in the whitepaper! :)
--
-Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org]
'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology,"
start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.'
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