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From: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com>
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Subject: RE: Journaling file system
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 15:44:51 -0400
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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."
> > 


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