On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 07:10:53PM +0000, Currell Berry wrote: > I infer from your response that soft updates possess: > > 1. increased overhead over default FFS settings. > 2. increased implementation complexity over default FFS settings. > > Also, I infer that journaling and soft updates provide equivalent data > safety > guarantees "in theory." Do they provide equivalent guarantees in practice?
in *my* practice, yes. I lost no single file last 10 years despite the frequent system crashes during kernel development & experimenting.
