From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jan 29 22:24: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F72E15AD8; Sat, 29 Jan 2000 22:23:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p25-dnz01kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [210.132.6.154]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) with ESMTP id PAA07316; Sun, 30 Jan 2000 15:23:47 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <3893D404.189AA11A@newsguy.com> Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 15:02:44 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group Cc: Kris Kennaway , Ataualpa Albert Carmo Braga , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: JFS References: <200001300024.QAA03100@cwsys.cwsent.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: > > 4.4BSD has something like JFS, LFS (Log Structured Filesystem). LFS > developed from a paper by John Ousterhout, the same fellow who > developed Tcl & Tk. All other log structured filesystems, JFS, AdvFS, > Veritas Filesystem, are based on Ousterhout's work. A journalled structured filesystem is NOT a log structured filesystem. > 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. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "If you consider our help impolite, you should see the manager." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message