Journaling filesystems

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Fri Jun 20 07:34:08 PDT 2003


In the last episode (Jun 20), Sergey Akifyev said:
> On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 12:02, Karsten Fuhrmann wrote:
> > i am wondering if there are any journaling filesystems for freebsd
> > which are ready to use like reiser or ext3 for freebsd.
>
> FFS + SoftUpdates is much better than journaling!

FFS+SU does have the disadvantages that a full fsck is still needed
(run in the background), and you risk losing the last `sysctl
kern.metadelay` seconds worth of files written just before a crash.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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