Re: journaling UFS and LFS

1999-11-01 Thread Don
There is a difference between a log-structured filesystem and a journaling filesystem... And? *Very* different from LFS. (What are features? "Has files and directories"? Time-complexity? Implementation details? Buzzwords?) You know. Features. As in those things that people would like to

Re: journaling UFS and LFS

1999-10-31 Thread Ville-Pertti Keinonen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Don) writes: and the next question: now that LFS starts to get usable in NetBSD - has anybody started to look at getting it working again in FreeBSD too (maybe matt ?) or has it on the TODO list LFS is being considered as a starting point for this project. The goal is

Re: journaling UFS and LFS

1999-10-31 Thread J Wunsch
Don [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Softupdates is definitely a viable solution however it does not address several issues and the license is not a BSD license so it makes me uncomfortable. Well, Kirk's idea is to put them under a BSD-style license as soon as possible, so in the long run, you might

Re: journaling UFS and LFS

1999-10-30 Thread Don
is anybody working on adding journaling to the (Free)BSD ufs - or are there any docs in that direction avalibale - any papers or so ? how much harder this is getting due to the complex FreeBSD vm/buffercache and soft updates ? - is anybody intereseted in starting to work on this ? This is