Sysinstall automatic filesystem size generation.

[Steven Hartland]

I must say in the 10 years of using Windows on my desktop
and on servers I've never once had to deal with NTFS loosing
data. In addition to that I dont have to sit though 1 hour worth
of offline checks when it crashes for what ever reason which I
do on our FreeBSD boxes.

>From our experiences, the issues with the current FS would
be the primary factor for begrudgingly moving to another OS as
for large FS's its getting simple unwieldy especially since foreground
checks are often required :(

There is a great amount of new work going into FreeBSD with
loads of improvements in a wide range of areas which is great
but I do believe the FS really does need to attract some more
focus as is not something that can solved quickly and is beginning
to become a sticking point.

    Steve
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matthias Buelow" <mkb at incubus.de>

> Can it be put into softupdates at all? From what I understand (which
> is probably a rather sketchy idea of the matter), write barriers
> work because they are only used here to separate journal writes
> from data writes (i.e., to make sure the log is written, by flushing
> the cache, before any filesystem data hits the platters). I've read
> the softupdates paper some time ago and haven't found similar
> sequence points where one could insert such flushing.  One would
> have to "flush" all the time, either continuously or in very short
> intervals, in order to keep the ordering, which then would amount
> to the same effects as if one simply disabled the cache. But probably
> I'm wrong here (I hope).



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