Journaled filesystem in CURRENT

2002-09-25 Thread Anton Yudin
Does CURRENT support journaled filesystem ? P.S. please, CC me, i'm not subscribed To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Journaled filesystem in CURRENT

2002-09-25 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 04:19:34PM +0300, Anton Yudin wrote: > > Does CURRENT support journaled filesystem ? There are not journaling file systems in current at this time. Efforts to port both xfs and jfs are underway. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FA

Re: Journaled filesystem in CURRENT

2002-09-25 Thread Matthias Schuendehuette
If I may add a comment here... You already *have* a kind of journaled filesystem for some time now. Please read "Soft Updates vs. Journalling Filesystems" from M.K. McKusick (www.mckusick.com). I'm really sad if see the efforts done especially for porting JFS to FreeBSD, which has already und

Re: Journaled filesystem in CURRENT

2002-09-25 Thread Juli Mallett
* De: Matthias Schuendehuette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Data: 2002-09-25 ] [ Subjecte: Re: Journaled filesystem in CURRENT ] > If I may add a comment here... > > You already *have* a kind of journaled filesystem for some time now. > > Please read "Soft Updates v

Re: Journaled filesystem in CURRENT

2002-09-26 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 11:12:34 -0700 Brooks Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does CURRENT support journaled filesystem ? > > There are not journaling file systems in current at this time. > Efforts to port both xfs and jfs are underway. We have something better than those. SoftUpdates. M

Re: Journaled filesystem in CURRENT

2002-09-26 Thread Claus Assmann
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 11:12:34 -0700 Brooks Davis > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Does CURRENT support journaled filesystem ? > > > > There are not journaling file systems in current at this time. > > Efforts to port both xfs and jfs are u

Re: Journaled filesystem in CURRENT

2002-09-26 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 10:52:18 -0500 Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We have something better than those. SoftUpdates. Much faster than > > jfs in metadata intensive operations. > > If you can stand the 20 minutes of severly degraded performance while > the background fsck runs after a c

Re: Journaled filesystem in CURRENT

2002-09-26 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 26), Alexander Leidinger said: > On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 11:12:34 -0700 Brooks Davis > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Does CURRENT support journaled filesystem ? > > > > There are not journaling file systems in current at this time. > > Efforts to port both xfs and jfs a

Re: Journaled filesystem in CURRENT

2002-09-26 Thread Terry Lambert
Claus Assmann wrote: > > > > Does CURRENT support journaled filesystem ? > > > > > > There are not journaling file systems in current at this time. > > > Efforts to port both xfs and jfs are underway. > > > > We have something better than those. SoftUpdates. Much faster than jfs > > in metadata

Re: Journaled filesystem in CURRENT

2002-09-26 Thread David Malone
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 10:36:27AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > I think that what you were probably testing was directory entry > layout and O(N) (linear) vs. O(log2(N)+1) search times for both > non-existant entries on creates, and for any entry on lookup > ( / 2 on lookup) . Though dirhash sho

Re: Journaled filesystem in CURRENT

2002-09-26 Thread Terry Lambert
David Malone wrote: > On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 10:36:27AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > > I think that what you were probably testing was directory entry > > layout and O(N) (linear) vs. O(log2(N)+1) search times for both > > non-existant entries on creates, and for any entry on lookup > > ( / 2 on

Re: Journaled filesystem in CURRENT

2002-09-26 Thread David Malone
> > On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 10:36:27AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > I think that what you were probably testing was directory entry > > > layout and O(N) (linear) vs. O(log2(N)+1) search times for both > > > non-existant entries on creates, and for any entry on lookup > > > ( / 2 on lookup) .

Re: Journaled filesystem in CURRENT

2002-09-26 Thread Claus Assmann
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > Claus Assmann wrote: > > When we tested several filesystems for mailservers (to store the > > mail queue), JFS and ext3 (in journal mode) beat UFS with softupdates > > by about a factor of 2. > > Hi Claus! Nice to hear from someone who actually tests

Re: Journaled filesystem in CURRENT

2002-09-26 Thread Zhihui Zhang
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Claus Assmann wrote: > On Thu, Sep 26, 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Claus Assmann wrote: > > > > When we tested several filesystems for mailservers (to store the > > > mail queue), JFS and ext3 (in journal mode) beat UFS with softupdates > > > by about a factor of 2. > >

Re: Journaled filesystem in CURRENT

2002-09-26 Thread Scott Dodson
I've been having loads of problems with the bg-fsck. After recovering from a crash/power failure my machine will boot and start the check. If there's moderate activity during the time its checking it will panic and reboot, getting stuck in a loop most of the time. I've not seen anyone mention th

Re: Journaled filesystem in CURRENT

2002-09-26 Thread Terry Lambert
David Malone wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 10:36:27AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > I think that what you were probably testing was directory entry > > > > layout and O(N) (linear) vs. O(log2(N)+1) search times for both > > > > non-existant entries on creates, and for any entry on loo

Re: Journaled filesystem in CURRENT

2002-09-26 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 10:36:27 -0700 Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That said, journalling and Soft Updates are totally orthogonal > technologies, just as btree and linear directory structures are > two orthogonal things. > > Journalling has advantages that a non-journalling FS with so

Re: Journaled filesystem in CURRENT

2002-09-26 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 14:54:00 -0400 Scott Dodson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been having loads of problems with the bg-fsck. After recovering > from a crash/power failure my machine will boot and start the check. > If there's moderate activity during the time its checking it will > panic an

Re: Journaled filesystem in CURRENT

2002-09-26 Thread Terry Lambert
Claus Assmann wrote: [ ... out of order answer, not related to main topic ... ] > "Per domain" doesn't work easily if you have multiple recipients. > Anyway, the new design clearly distinguishes between the content > files and the data that is necessary for delivery. Actually, it works fine, sinc

Re: Journaled filesystem in CURRENT

2002-09-26 Thread Matthias Schuendehuette
Terry Lambert wrote: > Yes, soft updates does nothing of user data, it is a metadata > technology. Journalling is implementation dependent; not all > JFS implementations will journal data which is not metadata, so > your results would depend on the JFS. I think you are not correct here. If I und

Re: Journaled filesystem in CURRENT

2002-09-26 Thread David O'Brien
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 09:13:41PM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Yes, bg-fsck isn't really usable at the moment. They work fine for me for quite a while. The last buildworld on my server was Sept 15th. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in th

Re: Journaled filesystem in CURRENT

2002-09-26 Thread Claus Assmann
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002, Zhihui Zhang wrote: > On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Claus Assmann wrote: > > If someone is interested: > > http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/sm-9-rfh.html > > Just as a small data point: I get message acceptance rates of > > 400msgs/s on a journalling file system (using a "normal" P

Re: Journaled filesystem in CURRENT

2002-09-27 Thread David Schultz
Thus spake Alexander Leidinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 10:52:18 -0500 Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > We have something better than those. SoftUpdates. Much faster than > > > jfs in metadata intensive operations. > > > > If you can stand the 20 minutes of sever

Re: Journaled filesystem in CURRENT

2002-09-27 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 12:40:49 -0700 Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Journalling has advantages that a non-journalling FS with soft > > > updates does not -- can not -- have, particularly since it is > > > not possible to distinguish a power failure from a hardware > > > failure from

Re: Journaled filesystem in CURRENT

2002-09-27 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 20:06:00 -0700 "David O'Brien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 09:13:41PM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > Yes, bg-fsck isn't really usable at the moment. > > They work fine for me for quite a while. The last buildworld on my > server was Sept 15th.

Re: Journaled filesystem in CURRENT

2002-09-27 Thread Tony Finch
Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Claus Assmann wrote: >[ ... out of order answer, not related to main topic ... ] >> "Per domain" doesn't work easily if you have multiple recipients. >> Anyway, the new design clearly distinguishes between the content >> files and the data that is necessar

Re: Journaled filesystem in CURRENT

2002-09-27 Thread Garrett Wollman
< said: > On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 09:13:41PM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote: >> Yes, bg-fsck isn't really usable at the moment. > They work fine for me for quite a while. The last buildworld on my > server was Sept 15th. Worked fine for me on my home desktop as well -- but I know that fsck h

Re: Journaled filesystem in CURRENT

2002-09-27 Thread Terry Lambert
Tony Finch wrote: > Exim doesn't do per-domain queue runs; when it successfully delivers > mail to a host it checks its hints database for any queued mail that > can go to the same place and shoves them down the same connection -- > no scanning of multiple files involved. So how does it implement

Re: Journaled filesystem in CURRENT

2002-09-27 Thread Terry Lambert
Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > > Sorry, I don't get it. Can you please be more verbose? > > > > This has been discussed to death before, and Kirk McKusick has > > already posted the definitive post on the topic to FreeBSD-FS. > > Keywords (besides SO and Kirk McKusick)/timeframe/message ID/URL?

Re: Journaled filesystem in CURRENT

2002-09-27 Thread Tony Finch
Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Tony Finch wrote: >> Exim doesn't do per-domain queue runs; when it successfully delivers >> mail to a host it checks its hints database for any queued mail that >> can go to the same place and shoves them down the same connection -- >> no scanning of mult

Re: Journaled filesystem in CURRENT

2002-09-27 Thread Terry Lambert
Tony Finch wrote: > Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Tony Finch wrote: > >> Exim doesn't do per-domain queue runs; when it successfully delivers > >> mail to a host it checks its hints database for any queued mail that > >> can go to the same place and shoves them down the same connecti

Re: Journaled filesystem in CURRENT

2002-09-28 Thread Zhihui Zhang
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Claus Assmann wrote: > On Thu, Sep 26, 2002, Zhihui Zhang wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Claus Assmann wrote: > > > > If someone is interested: > > > http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/sm-9-rfh.html > > > > Just as a small data point: I get message acceptance rates of > >

Re: Journaled filesystem in CURRENT

2002-09-28 Thread Claus Assmann
On Sat, Sep 28, 2002, Zhihui Zhang wrote: > Hope I can bother you with two more questions (I know nothing about > sendmail beyond its name): > > (1) Can sendmail be configured to generate automatic messages for the > purpose of performance test? No. sendmail is an MTA, not a performance tes

Re: Journaled filesystem in CURRENT

2002-10-04 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Fri, 27 Sep 2002 13:06:00 -0400 (EDT) Garrett Wollman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 09:13:41PM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > >> Yes, bg-fsck isn't really usable at the moment. > > > They work fine for me for quite a while. The last buildworld on my > > server w