File system

Randi Harper randi at freebsd.org
Fri May 21 00:56:27 UTC 2010


On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Robert Bonomi <bonomi at mail.r-bonomi.com> wrote:

> 2) You could try using a 'journaling' filesystem, *BUT* you'd have to build/
>   implement it yourself.  Journaling filesystems are deliberately _not_
>   provided with FreeBSD, due to security issues/implications with them.
>   _You_ will have to decide if the security risks in *your* envrionment are
>   worth the (limited) benefits.

Really? Where do you get your information? Seriously, loling so hard
right now. There's been a lot of work within FreeBSD to add journaling
to UFS2. I guess we just don't care about security anymore.

-- randi


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