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Date:      Sun, 30 Jan 2000 21:29:06 -0800 (PST)
From:      Tom <tom@uniserve.com>
To:        "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
Cc:        Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>, Ataualpa Albert Carmo Braga <atabraga@iqm.unicamp.br>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: JFS
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10001302126530.23661-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>
In-Reply-To: <3893D404.189AA11A@newsguy.com>

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On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:

> > Due to the lack of interest, FreeBSD's LFS has fallen into disrepair
> > over the years.  With the implementation of softupdates in FreeBSD I
> > don't think there is any need for LFS any more.
> 
> Repeat that over and over the next time you wait fsck finish a 40 Gb
> filesystem checkup, and see if you manage to convince yourself of that.

  Actually, one of the goals of the softupdates development is a fsck'less
filesystem.  I'm not sure how this is to be achieved.  Probably a metadata
journal, though that is just speculation.  All the work on metadata update
ordering in softupdates would probably apply very nicely to a journal.

> --
> Daniel C. Sobral			(8-DCS)
> dcs@newsguy.com
> dcs@freebsd.org
> 
> 	"If you consider our help impolite, you should see the manager."


Tom
Uniserve



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