Also you can look at XFS from Silicon Grapics' IRIX operating system, which has
recently been ported to Linux. Although still officially "alpha", I have been
using it for about 2 - 3 months with 0% downtime. Mind you - I don't use my
filesystem quite as heavily as some.
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/
Ralph Pickering
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Christoph Hammann wrote:
> Am Mon, 31 Jul 2000 schrieb 1stFlight !:
> > can anyone tell me what exactly a journaling filesystem (reiserfs,
> > ext3) is supposed to do over what ext2 already does?
> Hi Darryl,
> the name says it all: a journaling filesystem keeps a record of each and every
> transaction acted on the files and in the case of an irreguar termination,
> essentially programs not beeing allowed to exit normally due to a reset or a
> power-out, replays these transactions on these files, thereby greatly reducing
> time otherwise spent for checking filesystem consistency. And these days of
> gargantous harddisks, an fschk run can take a long time!
> Bye,
> Christoph
>
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