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Date:      Thu, 26 Feb 1998 11:24:58 +0900 (JST)
From:      Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>
To:        Karl Denninger <karl@mcs.net>
Cc:        Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>, Jay Nelson <jdn@acp.qiv.com>, blkirk@float.eli.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SCSI Bus redundancy...
Message-ID:  <Pine.SV4.3.95.980226112239.1660B-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp>
In-Reply-To: <19980225132146.02016@mcs.net>

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On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Karl Denninger wrote:

> If it blew chunks then FSCK has to run - and you damn well better be using a
> journaled filesystem or this is going to take a LONG time (ie: 20 minutes to
> an hour if you have some large disk storage involved here).  
> 
> This is one reason, by the way, that LFS being in a "working" state is 
> important to these kinds of efforts.
> 
> IBM has a solution that they've sold for quite some time based on AIX (which
> inherently uses jfs, a journalled filesystem) which does exactly this.

There are also ways to avoid having to do an fsck using the softupdates
framework and this is one of Kirk McKusick's next projects.

Regards,


Mike Hancock


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