From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 16 23: 6:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (fedde.littleton.co.us [216.17.174.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D349B37BA24 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 23:06:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cfedde@fedde.littleton.co.us) Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fedde.littleton.co.us (8.11.0/8.11.0.Beta3) with ESMTP id e7H667h22072; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:06:07 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200008170606.e7H667h22072@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Thomas Ewing , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Jounaling File System In-Reply-To: <20000816191859.A4854@fw.wintelcom.net> From: Chris Fedde Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:06:07 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 16 Aug 2000 19:18:59 -0700 Alfred Perlstein wrote: +------------------ | * Thomas Ewing [000816 19:11] wrote: | > I have recently been working on setting up a linux server for archiving | > our applications for ne wcomputer installs. One of my concerns with | > using linux though, is that it does not have a journaling file system, | > so that if a sudden power loss occurs, it is a very tedious and time | > consuming task to get the linux box back up and running. Does freebsd | > have a journaling file system? I am assuming it does since it is unix | > based, but I wanted to be sure before I spent a lot of time setting one | > up and then finding out it doesn't. | | Currently it does not. | | -Alfred +------------------ If the only need for a journaling file system is to support fast recovery from power failures you should look at softupdates in the FreeBSD ufs. This feature will almost completely eliminate inconsistencies caused by crashing an unsynched file system. It does not eliminate the boot time fsck, but the probability that fsck will find a problem is minimized. chris -- Chris Fedde 303 773 9134 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message