Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 19:40:00 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Darren Pilgrim <dmp@pantherdragon.org> Cc: Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>, David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU>, Daxbert <daxbert_news@dweebsoft.com>, Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>, Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why is there no JFS? Message-ID: <3E4B138F.26E32E75@mindspring.com> References: <3E4A5B77.5080103@ant.uni-bremen.de> <3E4A863E.2030801@potentialtech.com> <3E4A8EF5.1070308@ant.uni-bremen.de> <3E4A9712.8030609@potentialtech.com> <3E4AA331.5040701@ant.uni-bremen.de> <3E4AA734.5040102@potentialtech.com> <045401c2d2db$f9d45c30$0a0aa8c0@dweebsoft.com> <20030212225631.GA10375@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <005801c2d2eb$aa5fae60$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <3E4ADDDE.5040208@pantherdragon.org>
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Darren Pilgrim wrote: > Not really. A properly laid-out filesystem hierarchy will result in no > writes to / (except for installworld/kernel). That removes the problem > that journalling addresses, and is probably why softupdates is disabled > by default for /. For large, active filesystems, journalling would be a > big improvement when you had to run a foreground fsck. Soft updates are disable on / by default because of the chicken and egg problem of runing tunefs on /. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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