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Date:      Fri, 21 Jul 2000 15:12:16 -0500
From:      "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net>
To:        "Garrett Wollman" <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Journaling Filesystem ?
Message-ID:  <019b01bff34f$f7bfeea0$dd29680a@tgt.com>
References:  <017101bff34e$12ca9c10$dd29680a@tgt.com> <200007212004.QAA84436@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>

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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 <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To: Thomas T. Veldhouse <veldy@veldy.net>
Cc: <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 3:04 PM
Subject: Journaling Filesystem ?


> <<On Fri, 21 Jul 2000 14:58:43 -0500, "Thomas T. Veldhouse"
<veldy@veldy.net> 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
> <http://www.mckusick.com/softdep/index.html>.
>
> -GAWollman
>
>



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