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On Wed, 2004-Jul-21 15:57:30 -0600, Scott Long wrote:
>Implementing a journalling filesystem would be a much more beneficial
>use of time here.

You still wind up with unwritten data in RAM, just less of it.

How much effort would be required to add journalling to UFS or UFS2?
How big a gain does journalling give you over soft-updates?

-- 
Peter Jeremy