From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jul 23 13:43: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from monk.via.net (monk.via.net [209.81.2.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38E8F37B8E7 for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2000 13:43:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@via.net) Received: (from joe@localhost) by monk.via.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA36306; Sun, 23 Jul 2000 13:43:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe) From: Joe McGuckin Message-Id: <200007232043.NAA36306@monk.via.net> Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 13:43:41 -0700 (PDT) To: james@targetnet.com Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re[2]: Journaling Filesystem ? In-Reply-To: <20000722151719.B99818@targetnet.com> X-Mailer: Ishmail 1.3.1-970608-bsdi MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The big win with a journaling FS is when you have to reboot the system. With Softupdates, you still have to fsck. On a large FS (say half a terabyte) that can take hours. With a JFS, you simply play the log forward and continue. -joe -- Joe McGuckin ViaNet Communications 994 San Antonio Road Palo Alto, CA 94303 Phone: 650-969-2203 Cell: 650-207-0372 Fax: 650-969-2124 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message