Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 18:00:53 -0700 From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: Dave Uhring <duhring@charter.net> Cc: Chris BeHanna <behanna@zbzoom.net>, FreeBSD-Stable <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Improvements for FreeBSD v4.3.1-Release? Message-ID: <200106110101.f5B11k120202@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 10 Jun 2001 19:02:37 CDT." <01061019023702.00853@dave.uhring.com>
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In message <01061019023702.00853@dave.uhring.com>, Dave Uhring writes: > On Sunday 10 June 2001 18:31, Chris BeHanna wrote: > > On Sat, 9 Jun 2001, Juha Saarinen wrote: > > > On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Kenneth Mays wrote: > > > > 2. Journalling FS (what's the best one out there?) > > > > > > XFS from SGI seems pretty good, and the guys could do with some support > > > and recognition -- http://oss.sgi.com > > > > I'll have to take a look. > > > > I just set up a "transmeta" device under Solaris to journal a UFS > > filesystem that I set up on a RAID5 device. We'll have to see how > > that goes. > > > > FWIW, Solaris 8 appears to have a journaling option for UFS > > itself. > > > > (Not trumpeting Solaris, just offering a different perspective > > from which someone might draw a useful idea.) > > For a first-hand look at XFS, you can do a Linux install of RedHat-7.1 by > beginning the install with a CD made from SGI's XFS iso available at > > ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/download/ > > I have one of these systems set up and the journalling doesn't to slow the > system much at all. Also had a power failure and the system survived its > "smoke test" without damage. > > Since XFS is GPL'd, inclusion with the FreeBSD kernel seems problematic, > however. Not necessarily. It could go into src/sys/contrib. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/Alpha Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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