From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 6 21:36:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from core.usrlib.org (CC2-861.charter-stl.com [24.217.115.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E99C437B403 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 21:36:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ajh3@core.usrlib.org) Received: by core.usrlib.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id E5E92A874; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 23:35:36 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 23:35:36 -0500 From: Andrew Hesford To: Jean-Luc HILAIRE Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: journalised filesystem Message-ID: <20010606233536.A445@core.usrlib.org> References: <3B1E998E.79374962@seac.pf> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3B1E998E.79374962@seac.pf>; from HILAIRE_Jean-Luc@seac.pf on Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 10:58:54AM -1000 X-Loop: Andrew Hesford Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 10:58:54AM -1000, Jean-Luc HILAIRE wrote: > > hello everybody, > > I intend to install FreeBSD on a new server and I am looking for a > solution with a Journalised FileSystem (I know, among others, ReiserFS > under Linux) but I didn't see any mention of that kind of > implementation under FreeBSD reading the HandBook ... > Would be very happy smbd point me to infos on that subject, THKS > -- JL You would do better to use soft updates, an FFS extension which is more reliable and faster than most journaling file systems. Unlike ReiserFS, which seems to be in denial, FFS with soft updates still has a filesystem checker (fsck). ReiserFS people are too arrogant to admit that every filesystem would do well to employ a filesystem checker. Essentially, soft updates guarantees the only inconsistencies on a filesystem are misallocated inodes or blocks, making the check a very quick process. I can fsck an entire 20G drive in under 5 minutes; with Linux ext2, a check takes 15-20 minutes. In addition, it is safe to mount a "dirty" filesystem with softupdates. fsck can be run at one's convenience. -- Andrew Hesford ajh3@usrlib.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message