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On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> has any though been put towards a log based File system?

  Lots.  See mount_lfs code (keep in mind that it doesn't work).  Do a
"man -k lfs" to get the whole picture.

> would it be a performance gain at all? i think it could be a major
> improvement on heavily modified file systems for instance on a large News
> server were a sync might take a few seconds to complete.

  Performance gain?  I always though LFS files systems were slow, due to
the extra overhead.  However, that overhead buys you security, and fast
filesystems checks during start up.

> -Alfred

Tom