From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Apr 4 8:50: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from orion.ac.hmc.edu (Orion.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E00D237B8A2 for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 08:50:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brdavis@orion.ac.hmc.edu) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by orion.ac.hmc.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA16651; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 08:49:57 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 08:49:57 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: Michael Robinson Cc: brennan@offwhite.net, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: journaling fs Message-ID: <20000404084957.A16154@orion.ac.hmc.edu> References: <20000403132828.A28633@orion.ac.hmc.edu> <200004040541.NAA65851@netrinsics.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre4i In-Reply-To: <200004040541.NAA65851@netrinsics.com>; from robinson@netrinsics.com on Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 01:41:46PM +0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 01:41:46PM +0800, Michael Robinson wrote: > Brooks Davis writes: > >Journaling is only one solution to > >this problem. Most of the features you will typicaly see attributed to > >a JFS have nothing to do with journaling. What most people seem to want > >from a JFS is buzzword compliance. > > What I want most from a JFS is the ability to do reliable backups while > running production services, like I can do with Veritas' file system > snapshots. This is also something Kirk is working on for UFS. Journeling is not the only way to acomplish this. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message