From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 13 16:51:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mission.mvnc.edu (mission.mvnc.edu [149.143.2.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C34FA14FA9 for ; Fri, 13 Aug 1999 16:51:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kdrobnac@mission.mvnc.edu) Received: from localhost (kdrobnac@localhost) by mission.mvnc.edu (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id TAA25157; Fri, 13 Aug 1999 19:46:59 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 19:46:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenny Drobnack To: Christopher Michaels Cc: "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" Subject: RE: Journaling file system In-Reply-To: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105B87@site2s1> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On SGI's web page (www.sgi.com) they have some documentation on how their XFS works. > I hate to ask a stupid question, but could someone point me to what exactly > a journaling file system does? > > -Chris > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Alton, Matthew [SMTP:Matthew.Alton@anheuser-busch.com] > > Sent: Thursday, August 12, 1999 5:50 PM > > To: 'Chris Dillon' > > Cc: 'Kenny Drobnack'; Charles Randall; Jason J. Horton; > > freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > Subject: RE: Journaling file system > > > > This is a matter for the core team to decide. I will simply make the > > source > > available. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Chris Dillon [SMTP:cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us] > > > Sent: Thursday, August 12, 1999 4:43 PM > > > To: Alton, Matthew > > > Cc: 'Kenny Drobnack'; Charles Randall; Jason J. Horton; > > > freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > > Subject: RE: Journaling file system > > > > > > On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Alton, Matthew wrote: > > > > > > > A straight port of SGI's GPLed XFS to the FreeBSD 4.x kernel is > > underway. > > > > The code will not be submitted for inclusion in the FreeBSD source > > tree due > > > > to licensing conflicts. FreeBSD XFS will be made available as a > > kernel > > > patch + > > > > utilities. > > > > > > Could it be integrated but not enabled by default, something akin to > > > how soft-updates is currently handled? > > > > > > > > > > > > -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net > > > FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. > > > For Intel x86 and Alpha architectures (SPARC under development). > > > ( http://www.freebsd.org ) > > > > > > "One should admire Windows users. It takes a great deal of > > > courage to trust Windows with your data." > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > ----- We are now the Knights who say... "Ekki-Ekki-Ekki-Ekki-PTANG! Zoom-Boing! Z'nourrwringmm!" ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message