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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/