[Fwd: Re: Show stopper for large disks with 5.4-RELEASE]

[Matthias Buelow]

I wrote:

> after an unclean boot that would be a great boon. It would be nice if
> one can in the future chose between softupdates (for smaller
> filesystems) and journalling (for larger ones), or so.

OTOH, if journalling works really well and painless, like on Linux with
the ext2->ext3 migration, then I can't see any point of maintaining
softupdates any longer. Better focus on one thing and to it well instead
of diluting developer resources.

mkb.