Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:50:52 +0100 From: Vincent Hoffman <vince@unsane.co.uk> To: Dan Naumov <dan.naumov@gmail.com> Cc: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysinstall, GJOURNAL and ZFS Message-ID: <4A2E84DC.1010900@unsane.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <cf9b1ee00906090757v7d589dfch978076a97be724a9@mail.gmail.com> References: <cf9b1ee00906090242h6dea1182h8e743b7ceec36c2c@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906091632430.6551@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <cf9b1ee00906090757v7d589dfch978076a97be724a9@mail.gmail.com>
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On 9/6/09 15:57, Dan Naumov wrote: >> UFS2+SoftUpdates works fine on properly configured UFS2 - and very fast. >> > Yes, UFS2+SoftUpdates is very fast, however, in the case of a power > loss or having to pull the plug on a locked up system, it has a > noticeably higher chance of leaving you with an unbootable system than > if you were using Linux with ext3/ext4 or Windows with NTFS. > > > Interestingly in my experience its been the opposite, I've lost a few ext3 filesystems though bad power, same for NTFS (NT4, less so with 200x) but as yet never for ufs2 (fsck has always fixed it.) That said, there have been a few projects to update/replace/whatever sysinstall, look at the desktopBSD installer (bsdinstaller) and finstall. I'm not sure what the status of either of these 2 are though. Vince
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