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Date:      Thu, 3 Jun 1999 23:30:36 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans@razorfish.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: What filesystem does ftp.cdrom.com use?(Journaled/Logging?)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9906032329180.774-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199906011749.NAA01615@yaga.razorfish.com>

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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.
> 

Well, we have soft updates, wich concievably shouldn't require fsck, but
for the time being it still checks everything (until we're sure it works
:-) ).  Nicely, with softupdates you won't find any errors.

> 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.

I'm not sure how it's set up now, but before it wasn't one huge FS.

Doug White                               
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