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>As Chris Csanady wrote:
>
>> Yeah. :)  You really should try to use the fs as it was intended anyway.  BT
W,
>> does anyone know the status of McKusick's soft updates integration?  I think
>> this would make a lot of people happy..
>
>Do you perchance mean `mount -o async'?

No, I was talking about an implementation of delayed ordered writes as
described by Ganger/Patt's paper.  I'm pretty sure that I've heard someone
mention that McKusick was working on this for the FFS.  I could be wrong..

http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/~ganger/papers/CSE-TR-254-95/CSE-TR-254-95.ps.Z

--Chris Csanady

>
>-- 
>cheers, J"org
>
>joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
>Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)