Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 08:40:24 +1100 From: jonathan michaels <jon@caamora.com.au> To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD - A User's Point of View Message-ID: <19990125084024.C18834@caamora.com.au> In-Reply-To: <36AB1B9B.549FDE56@newsguy.com>; from Daniel C. Sobral on Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 10:09:47PM %2B0900 References: <19990124201556.E36690@freebie.lemis.com> <199901240949.BAA17434@implode.root.com> <19990124212533.B17658@caamora.com.au> <36AB1B9B.549FDE56@newsguy.com>
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On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 10:09:47PM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > jonathan michaels wrote: > > > > is this softupdates teh same as a journaling filesystem, if not is freebsd > > going to evolve such a creature ? > > No, softupdates is not a journaling filesystem. It is a different > semantics for writes for ffs. (Well, I suppose softupdates > "technology" is applicable to any fs, but in our case, is ffs.) > > FreeBSD evolving a journaling filesystem depends on someone doing > it. :-) A journaling fs has advantages over Delayed Ordered Writes > fs, which is softupdates' poor cousin, so to speak (in what they do, > not in who did them). So, I guess a journaling fs has advantages > over softupdates, but I'd have to go back to my archives to "recall" > them :-). But it is a little bit unlikely someone would trouble > him/herself with a journaling fs given softupdates. yes, it is starting to look like that. now all i have to do is workout how to sell teh 'softupdates' concept to a died in teh wool novell journelling fs database manager whose hide has been saved more than once by journelling. ummm, not an easy task . but we will prevail .. grin. revicved with thanks jonathan -- =============================================================================== Jonathan Michaels PO Box 144, Rosebery, NSW 1445 Australia ===========================================================<jon@caamora.com.au> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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