On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 10:45:51AM -0700, Scott Fritzinger wrote: > - Are there any journaling filesystem for any of the BSD variants? -
No, but soft-updates purport to be equivalent in terms of maintaining metadata consistency. It does *not* offer the option to journal data, but then again neither does ReiserFS, and EXT3 has that off by default. The 4.x series still has to fsck, although it's supposed to be cleaner (if not faster) than not having soft-updates. Some benchmarks have shown both to be good methods speed-wise, although there are edge cases where one system beats out the other. As for stability, I can't say. Journaling is a tried-and-true method, whereas soft-updates are a relatively new idea. But since FreeBSD has a rep for stability, I'd venture a guess that it will perform as advertised. Lastly, though, even journaling systems can get hosed. I lost about two years worth of work last week due to an overheated system, and wasn't saved by my EXT3 metadata journaling. Backups (when they work) are critical. *sigh* -- Find my Techno-Geek Journal at http://www.codegnome.org/geeklog/ _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
