On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 08:46:39PM -0800, T. Joseph Carter wrote: > On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 07:43:58PM -0801, Jacob Meuser wrote: > > > Yes, that's what he meant. > > > > > > Now what would be cool is a journaled file system for bsd. Any one out > > > there? Perhaps when bsd supports xfs, reiser or ext3. > > > > Probably won't ever happen. UFS/FFS has been around for ages. Many > > BSD'ers take comfort in that. Look at the FFS in FreeBSD 5.x for > > state-of-the-art BSD filesystems. > > There's already a form of journaling present in BSD. It's not quite the > same as the stuff used by the Linux offerings, but it does log the changes > to assist when you need to fsck. I'm sketchy on details.
Softdep makes fsck _very_ reliable, thus the ability to do background fsck (use the FS in the meantime). That's not the same as using a journalling fs, tho ... it's still FFS. IMHO, Linux suports journalling FSs because ext2 was not so reliable after crashes. FFS has been reliable for quite a while. IMHO, BSDers don't feel the need to implement a new fs. -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
