In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write:
>I was actually _really_ hoping that somebody would come along and tell 
>everybody that this whole journal-logging is stupid, and that it's just 
>better to not ever re-write blocks on disk, but instead write to new 
>blocks with version numbers (and not re-use old blocks until new versions 
>are stable on disk).
>
>There was even somebody who did something like that for a PhD thesis, I 
>forget the details (and it apparently died when the thesis was presumably 
>accepted ;).

If you mean tux2, it died because of patent issues:

http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0208.3/0332.html

Mike.
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