From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jun 9 8:47:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from web14707.mail.yahoo.com (web14707.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.224.124]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3648237B401 for ; Sat, 9 Jun 2001 08:47:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hackr_d@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20010609154753.32846.qmail@web14707.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [63.67.120.228] by web14707.mail.yahoo.com; Sat, 09 Jun 2001 08:47:53 PDT Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 08:47:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Donn Miller Subject: Re: Improvements for FreeBSD v4.3.1-Release? To: pjklist@ekahuna.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3B21D639.14436.461C2A4@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --- "Philip J. Koenig" wrote: > I thought the conclusion was that SoftUpdates which comes with > FreeBSD had many advantages over typical journalling FS's. Which is why Sun and SGI both use Soft Updates on their filesystems. I think it's all a matter of tradeoffs. Journaling probably isn't as fast as softupdates, but otoh, really huge filesystems don't have to have the long fsck that softupdates requires. BUT, if background fsck ever gets implemented, it should help immensely even the score in that area. In general, I think journaling is better, but what happens when the journal itself gets corrupted? Another [+] for softupdates. Ok, I don't know what I'm talking about. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message