Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 15:59:36 -0500 From: Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org> To: Gary Thorpe <gathorpe79@yahoo.com> Cc: omestre <omestre@sdf.lonestar.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: soft updates Message-ID: <3DF7A738.70109@mitre.org> In-Reply-To: <20021211154834.46558.qmail@web41201.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20021211154834.46558.qmail@web41201.mail.yahoo.com>
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Gary Thorpe wrote: > The only logging/journaling file system available for *BSD that I am > aware of is LFS, which I don't think is either stable or fast. I don't > know how big a filesystem FFS+softdeps will support, but soft updates > is not completly stable although I think it can be used with reasonable > assurance it won't explode (I have). FFS on FreeBSD can support +300GB > file systems I think, but whether soft updates will work correctly (or > at least as correctly as it does in smaller file systems) at these > sizes is unknown to me. I've been using softupdates on a 361GB filesystem for some time now. Although some hardware failures gave vinum fits, softupdates has never caused me a problem: /dev/vinum/media 361G 288G 45G 87% /media -- \ |_ _|__ __|_ \ __| Jason Andresen jandrese@mitre.org |\/ | | | / _| Network and Distributed Systems Engineer _| _|___| _| _|_\___| Office: 703-883-7755 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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