Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 18:15:07 -0700 From: Cy Schubert <cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: chad@DCFinc.com Cc: Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca, kris@FreeBSD.ORG, alexander@frolkin.demon.co.uk, brennan@offwhite.net, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: journaling fs Message-ID: <200004050115.SAA78456@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 04 Apr 2000 18:11:15 PDT." <200004050111.SAA10572@freeway.dcfinc.com>
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In message <200004050111.SAA10572@freeway.dcfinc.com>, "Chad R. Larson" writes: > As I recall, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: > > To change the topic slightly, are there any plans to resurrect LFS? > > Would there be any point to putting in the time and effort to removing > > the bitrot or should we leave it where it is? > > Understand that the LFS was something completely different than the > filesystems we've just been discussing (journaled filesystems, or > filesystems with intent logs). The rotting LFS was a log filesystem > wherein a linear log of changes made were kept. This gave a > performance boost to operations that were large and sequential, as > it avoided the work UFS goes through on a write to extend a file > (all the stuff about dealing with fragments and trying to keep all > the extents of a file in the same cylinder group). Handy, I > suppose, to record streaming video. > > You probably knew that, didn't you. I realize that. This discussion reminded me to ask about LFS. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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