From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jan 29 22:25:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from public.bta.net.cn (public.bta.net.cn [202.96.0.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3DF3159CA for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2000 22:24:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robinson@netrinsics.com) Received: from netrinsics.com (gj-04-063.bta.net.cn [202.106.4.63]) by public.bta.net.cn (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA14884 for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2000 14:24:42 +0800 (CST) Received: (from robinson@localhost) by netrinsics.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA05208 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Sun, 30 Jan 2000 14:25:21 +0800 (+0800) (envelope-from robinson) Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 14:25:21 +0800 (+0800) From: Michael Robinson Message-Id: <200001300625.OAA05208@netrinsics.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: JFS Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tom writes: > Journalling is going to be requirement. The reason why everyone wants a >journalled filesystem, is for fast fsckes. Actually, the ability to create a "snapshot" of the filesystem for doing online backups is for me the compelling feature of, e.g., Veritas. >I think the idea is to add a journal to softupdates. Will that allow the creation of filesystem snapshots? -Michael Robinson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message