From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Oct 30 8:31:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from hermes.mixx.net (hermes.mixx.net [194.152.58.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FEAA1507D for ; Sat, 30 Oct 1999 08:19:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from graichen@innominate.de) Received: from innominate.de (gatekeeper.innominate.de [212.5.16.129]) by hermes.mixx.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA02421 for ; Sun, 24 Oct 1999 10:30:41 +0200 Received: (qmail 14076 invoked from network); 24 Oct 1999 08:30:30 -0000 Received: from piano.innominate.local (192.168.0.213) by lingo01.innominate.local with SMTP; 24 Oct 1999 08:30:30 -0000 Received: from localhost (graichen@localhost) by piano.innominate.local (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA05434; Sun, 24 Oct 1999 10:30:30 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from graichen@innominate.de) X-Authentication-Warning: piano.innominate.local: graichen owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 10:30:30 +0200 (CEST) From: Thomas Graichen X-Sender: graichen@piano.innominate.local To: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: journaling UFS and LFS Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG is anybody working on adding journaling to the (Free)BSD ufs - or are there any docs in that direction avalibale - any papers or so ? how much harder this is getting due to the complex FreeBSD vm/buffercache and soft updates ? - is anybody intereseted in starting to work on this ? and the next question: now that LFS starts to get usable in NetBSD - has anybody started to look at getting it working again in FreeBSD too (maybe matt ?) or has it on the TODO list for the next months or anything similar ? - anybody with some skills willing to to start working on this ? - just some words about the state in NetBSD (according to my experiments :-): they have it working so far - mostly stable with some minor problems still and also the fsck_lfs is at least able to check the lfs filesystem read only. i think it is a very important point to get this working in FreeBSD due to too long fsck times at bootup getting more and more a killer argument against FreeBSD in serious use with growing filesystem sizes - linux now has somekind of beta quality journaling for ext2 working now btw. t -- graichen@innominate.de innominate AG networking people fon: +49.30.308806-13 fax: -77 web: http://innominate.de pgp: /pgp/tg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message