From owner-freebsd-fs Fri Mar 15 7:53:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from ns.caldera.de (ns.caldera.de [212.34.180.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2645D37B41F for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 07:53:35 -0800 (PST) Received: (from hch@localhost) by ns.caldera.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2FFrOL17729; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 16:53:24 +0100 Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 16:53:24 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Terry Lambert Cc: Parity Error , freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: metadata update durability ordering/soft updates Message-ID: <20020315165324.A17467@caldera.de> References: <3C910C57.71C2D823@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3C910C57.71C2D823@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 12:47:19PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 12:47:19PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > If you want this behaviour on Linux, ReiserFS uses the USL patented > DOW technology without a license. Reiserfs is a typical journaling filesystem in that it writes logical log records to either an inline log or (in recent versions) an extern log device. Ext3 uses physical block based journaling and allows additional tracking of data blocks in a way only remotely similar to DOW (the data=ordered mode). Christoph -- Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message