From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jul 21 13:13:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from veldy.net (veldy-host201.dsl.visi.com [208.42.48.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B29E637B577 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:13:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from veldy@veldy.net) Received: from 95CTJ (fuggle.veldy.net [208.42.48.201]) by veldy.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 7AF748C37; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 15:15:23 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <019b01bff34f$f7bfeea0$dd29680a@tgt.com> From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" To: "Garrett Wollman" Cc: References: <017101bff34e$12ca9c10$dd29680a@tgt.com> <200007212004.QAA84436@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Subject: Re: Journaling Filesystem ? Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 15:12:16 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have been using softupdates since 3.x. It works pretty well - but recovery was not as good as ReiserFS - so far. I didn't quite catch what the improvements that are underway for current. What is the difference between a journal and a snapshot? Tom Veldhouse veldy@veldy.net ----- Original Message ----- From: Garrett Wollman To: Thomas T. Veldhouse Cc: Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 3:04 PM Subject: Journaling Filesystem ? > < said: > > > Are there plans for something along this line for FreeBSD? Is there a > > project underway? > > No. Soft Updates provides most of the benefits without requiring > changes to the on-disk layout. See > . > > -GAWollman > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message