From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jun 9 8:51: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93B3037B401 for ; Sat, 9 Jun 2001 08:51:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.demon.nl) Received: from [212.238.54.101] (helo=freebie.demon.nl) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 158l0u-00046M-00; Sat, 09 Jun 2001 15:51:01 +0000 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.demon.nl (8.11.3/8.11.2) id f59FvAS20415; Sat, 9 Jun 2001 17:57:10 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 17:57:10 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Donn Miller Cc: pjklist@ekahuna.com, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Improvements for FreeBSD v4.3.1-Release? Message-ID: <20010609175710.A17052@freebie.demon.nl> References: <3B21D639.14436.461C2A4@localhost> <20010609154753.32846.qmail@web14707.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20010609154753.32846.qmail@web14707.mail.yahoo.com>; from hackr_d@yahoo.com on Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 08:47:53AM -0700 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org 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 On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 08:47:53AM -0700, Donn Miller wrote: > > --- "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 Make that: bg fsck has been implemented (in -current at least) -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands email: wilko@freebsd.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Powered by FreeBSD/[alpha,x86] http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message