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Rong-en Fan wrote:
> In NetBSD, they now have metadata journaling support, see
> 
> http://www.netbsd.org/changes/#wapbl
> 
> I'm not a fs guru, I just want to know what are the status of
> BluFFS and UFS journaling support which were mentioned
> in recent years.
> 
> Thanks,
> Rong-En Fan

This is very interesting!  I can imagine this would be the way for 
systems where ZFS is not an option but SU are reaching their limits.