Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 17:47:43 +0200 From: Stefan Bethke <stefan.bethke@hanse.de> To: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Metablock caching & negative block # Message-ID: <819360.3135520063@d225.promo.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.990512104153.8082A-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>
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Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> wrote: > By the way, all other metablocks seem to be delay-written. In other = words, > they are not written synchronously. What happens if the system crashes > before their updates go to disk. I read in the mailinglist that FreeBSD > metadata I/O are conservative. Can anyone describe this a little bit = for > me. AFAIK, the non-static information in the superblock and others can easily be reconstructed by fsck (the information is gathered anyway). Stefan -- M=FChlendamm 12 | Voice +49-40-256848, +49-177-3504009 D-22089 Hamburg | e-mail: stefan.bethke@hanse.de Germany | stb@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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