From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 1 11:31:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C583E14D5B for ; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 11:31:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA28501; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 13:53:01 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 13:52:59 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Hans-Christoph Steiner Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What filesystem does ftp.cdrom.com use?(Journaled/Logging?) In-Reply-To: <199906011749.NAA01615@yaga.razorfish.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > > We are currently using Linux/ext2fs for our 120GB file server. Everything > works fine when running, but when there is a crash (2.2.4! arg!), it takes > hours to run fsck. I am thinking of switching this machine to FreeBSD because > I have heard rumors that there is a journaled filesystem or a logging > filesystem for FreeBSD. This would greatly help our situation. > > Basically we are planning to build something like ftp.cdrom.com but geared > towards Samba rather than ftp so I was wondering how they have it set up. FreeBSD doesn't offer a logging filesystem yet, however from what I hear FreeBSD is a lot more stable, you will still have long fsck, but just much, much less often. :) -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message