On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 10:52:18 -0500 Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > We have something better than those. SoftUpdates. Much faster than > > jfs in metadata intensive operations. > > If you can stand the 20 minutes of severly degraded performance while > the background fsck runs after a crash, and the loss of any files Sometimes it's better to have 20 minutes (or how long it takes to do the bg-fsck on your FS) degraded performance, than no performance at all (you can have this too, just configure the system to make an fg-fsck instead of a bg-fsck)... (how long does it take to check the journal and to do some appropriate actions depending on the journal?) > created up to 30 seconds (by default) before the crash. There's no guarantee with a journaled fs, that the data before the crash is on the disk. A journaled fs is in the same boat with SO here. Bye, Alexander. -- Secret hacker rule #11: hackers read manuals. http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net GPG fingerprint = C518 BC70 E67F 143F BE91 3365 79E2 9C60 B006 3FE7 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message