Improvements to fsck performance in -current ...?

[Lukas Ertl]

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Steve Kargl wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 01:04:51AM +0200, Lukas Ertl wrote:
> > >
> > > are either of these enhancements back-patchable to the 4.x fsck, or do
> > > they require some non-4.x compatible changes to work?
> >
> > It's not just the fsck application itself, background fsck basically needs
> > file system snapshots, which are only available on UFS2, and I'm not sure
> > if they can be backported to UFS1 at all.
>
> As soon as Kirk committed the snapshot capability, snapshot became available
> on UFS1.  The only requirement is softupdates and softupdates pre-dates
> UFS2.

Oh, yeah, sorry, I think I got that wrong :-/.

regards,
le

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