The big win with a journaling FS is when you have to reboot the system.
With Softupdates, you still have to fsck. On a large FS (say half a
terabyte) that can take hours.
With a JFS, you simply play the log forward and continue.
-joe
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On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Joe McGuckin wrote:
The big win with a journaling FS is when you have to reboot the system.
With Softupdates, you still have to fsck. On a large FS (say half a
terabyte) that can take hours.
No you don't. Your filesystem will be in a consistent state except for
blocks
On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 03:28:07PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Joe McGuckin wrote:
The big win with a journaling FS is when you have to reboot the system.
With Softupdates, you still have to fsck. On a large FS (say half a
terabyte) that can take hours.
No you
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Brian O'Shea wrote:
I didn't even know that background fsck was supported at all. I
remember hearing Kirk talk about it as a future feature at FreeBSD CON
last year, but I havn't heard anything about it since. How do you
use it?
I've never tried it myself - maybe I am
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000 13:43:41 -0700 (PDT), Joe McGuckin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
With Softupdates, you still have to fsck. On a large FS (say half a
terabyte) that can take hours.
No you don't. Please read the paper.
-GAWollman
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On Sun, 23 Jul 2000 17:31:24 -0700, "Brian O'Shea" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I didn't even know that background fsck was supported at all. I
remember hearing Kirk talk about it as a future feature at FreeBSD CON
last year, but I havn't heard anything about it since. How do you
use it?
It is
