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Date:      Tue, 30 Sep 2003 16:25:06 -0700
From:      Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
To:        Lukas Ertl <l.ertl@univie.ac.at>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Improvements to fsck performance in -current ...?
Message-ID:  <20030930232506.GA31027@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20031001010119.M592@korben.in.tern>
References:  <20030930221148.54E7E5D07@ptavv.es.net> <20030930194544.H94686@ganymede.hub.org> <20031001010119.M592@korben.in.tern>

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On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 01:04:51AM +0200, Lukas Ertl wrote:
> >
> > are either of these enhancements back-patchable to the 4.x fsck, or do
> > they require some non-4.x compatible changes to work?
> 
> It's not just the fsck application itself, background fsck basically needs
> file system snapshots, which are only available on UFS2, and I'm not sure
> if they can be backported to UFS1 at all.
> 

As soon as Kirk committed the snapshot capability, snapshot became available
on UFS1.  The only requirement is softupdates and softupdates pre-dates
UFS2. 

-- 
Steve



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