Sorry, this didn't get into Part II. 12) FreeBSD uses the UFS (unix file system) which is not a journaling file system. fsck is required if not cleanly unmounted. There is a feature called Soft Updates that changes the way meta data vs. normal data is scheduled to be flushed to the disk. This is supposed to make the file system less error prone, but there are some indications of it worsening the problem. FreeBSD 5.0 is working on changes to the file system to allow "fsck-less boot," but I don't know anything more. The lack of a journaling fs is probably the biggest drawback that I can see for FreeBSD, with device support being a close second.
-- Collins Richey - Denver Area WWTLRD? - FreeBSD 4.4 + xfce + sylpheed _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
