Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 20:45:24 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: roark_hilomen_at_meridian@meridian-data.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Soft Updates Message-ID: <34D943E4.31DFF4F5@whistle.com> References: <9802048866.AA886625156@meridian-data.com>
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Kirk just left about 5 minutes ago so I just got to read my mail we got soft-updates working this afternoon.. see the discussion in -hackers for more info. julian roark_hilomen_at_meridian@meridian-data.com wrote: > > I was searching for "Soft Updates" implementation and found references to it in > the Filesystem newsgroup. Unfortunately it only mentioned that OpenBSD was > implementing it. It slightly hinted that FreeBSD may have it soon, but no > timeframe or release number (2.2.5? 3.0? 3.0+?) > > I am definitely interested in the "Soft Update" enhancemnet to the filesystem. > I would like to know its availability or current state of development. > > Also, since soft updates tend to delay "writes", on a critical failure (system > crash, panic, power outage), what provisions of data integrity have been > implemented? Is an intent log written out? Has fsck changed? > > If it is not in FreeBSD, can some one direct me to more information? > > Thank you
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