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Date:      Wed, 11 Dec 2002 15:59:36 -0500
From:      Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org>
To:        Gary Thorpe <gathorpe79@yahoo.com>
Cc:        omestre <omestre@sdf.lonestar.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: soft updates
Message-ID:  <3DF7A738.70109@mitre.org>
In-Reply-To: <20021211154834.46558.qmail@web41201.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20021211154834.46558.qmail@web41201.mail.yahoo.com>

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Gary Thorpe wrote:

> The only logging/journaling file system available for *BSD that I am
> aware of is LFS, which I don't think is either stable or fast. I don't
> know how big a filesystem FFS+softdeps will support, but soft updates
> is not completly stable although I think it can be used with reasonable
> assurance it won't explode (I have). FFS on FreeBSD can support +300GB
> file systems I think, but whether soft updates will work correctly (or
> at least as correctly as it does in smaller file systems) at these
> sizes is unknown to me.

I've been using softupdates on a 361GB filesystem for some time now.
Although some hardware failures gave vinum fits, softupdates has never
caused me a problem:
/dev/vinum/media    361G   288G    45G    87%    /media

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