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Date:      Sat, 9 Jun 2001 17:57:10 +0200
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl>
To:        Donn Miller <hackr_d@yahoo.com>
Cc:        pjklist@ekahuna.com, stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Improvements for FreeBSD v4.3.1-Release?
Message-ID:  <20010609175710.A17052@freebie.demon.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20010609154753.32846.qmail@web14707.mail.yahoo.com>; from hackr_d@yahoo.com on Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 08:47:53AM -0700
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On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 08:47:53AM -0700, Donn Miller wrote:
> 
> --- "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist@ekahuna.com> wrote:
> 
> > I thought the conclusion was that SoftUpdates which comes with 
> > FreeBSD had many advantages over typical journalling FS's. 
> 
> <sar>Which is why Sun and SGI both use Soft Updates on their
> filesystems.</sar>
> 
> I think it's all a matter of tradeoffs.  Journaling probably isn't as
> fast as softupdates, but otoh, really huge filesystems don't have to
> have the long fsck that softupdates requires.  BUT, if background fsck
> ever gets implemented, it should help immensely even the score in that

Make that: bg fsck has been implemented (in -current at least)

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