From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 4 13:28:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA14736 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 13:28:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from iconetworks.com (psycho2.iconetworks.net [204.94.129.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA14718 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 13:28:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roark_hilomen_at_meridian@meridian-data.com) From: roark_hilomen_at_meridian@meridian-data.com Received: from meridian-data.com (cdserv.meridian-data.com [204.94.131.20]) by ICONETWORKS (8.8.5/8.8.2/103196) with SMTP id NAA28590 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 13:28:17 -0800 Received: from ccMail by meridian-data.com (ccMail Link to SMTP R8.00.01) id AA886625156; Wed, 04 Feb 98 13:23:40 -0800 Message-Id: <9802048866.AA886625156@meridian-data.com> X-Mailer: ccMail Link to SMTP R8.00.01 Date: Wed, 04 Feb 98 12:51:37 -0800 To: Subject: Soft Updates MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" I was searching for "Soft Updates" implementation and found references to it in the Filesystem newsgroup. Unfortunately it only mentioned that OpenBSD was implementing it. It slightly hinted that FreeBSD may have it soon, but no timeframe or release number (2.2.5? 3.0? 3.0+?) I am definitely interested in the "Soft Update" enhancemnet to the filesystem. I would like to know its availability or current state of development. Also, since soft updates tend to delay "writes", on a critical failure (system crash, panic, power outage), what provisions of data integrity have been implemented? Is an intent log written out? Has fsck changed? If it is not in FreeBSD, can some one direct me to more information? Thank you