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From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
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Cc: Freminlins <freminlins@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Large File System?
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In the last episode (Aug 08), Atom Powers said:
> On 8/8/06, Freminlins <freminlins@gmail.com> wrote:
> >On 08/08/06, Atom Powers <atom.powers@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Thanks. I found my problem. (Sysinstall, aka fdisk, won't do more
> >> that 1.2TB.) BTW, anybody have any good advice on how to manage a
> >> large file system?
> ...
> >The single most important thing missing for me in FreeBSD is a
> >journalling file system as I would use it on every box.
> 
> What exactly does a journaling file system give you? As I understand
> it, it doesn't prevent corruption and it doesn't help you fix the
> corruption when it occurs.

Journalling lets you roll back/forward a partially-commited filesystem
change, so a full filesytem check isn't required to mark it clean after
an unintended system reset.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com