Re: The journalling file system saga

2004-05-14 Thread Christian Laursen
Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Perhaps a document would be in order describing/detailing all the details such as this about soft updates, all in one place. What I know I have mostly gathered by reading papers and random mailinglist postings about certain specifics. Is there such

The journalling file system saga

2004-05-13 Thread John Monkey
Ladies and Gents, The lack of a journalling file system for FreeBSD has been discussed over and over on the mailing lists. I have read and understood all the advocacy for softupdates and background fsck. Softupdates gives great performance benefits. Background fsck is useful, but with

Re: The journalling file system saga

2004-05-13 Thread Peter Schuller
Hello, I had to build a storage system this week with a capacity of 1.6TB. Regrettfully I decided to use Linux with XFS as the thought of waiting for fsck to complete in the event of a problem makes me wince. I experimented with FreeBSD, using two 800GB partitions and things like that, but

Re: The journalling file system saga

2004-05-13 Thread Christian Laursen
Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [Problems with softupdates] Yet another problem is that an fsync() no longer guarantees that data is on disk, even with write caching disabled on the media. This doesn't break things like PostgreSQL provided that the order of writes is preserved, but

Re: The journalling file system saga

2004-05-13 Thread Peter Schuller
[Problems with softupdates] Yet another problem is that an fsync() no longer guarantees that data is on disk, even with write caching disabled on the media. This doesn't break things like PostgreSQL provided that the order of writes is preserved, but it does break things like MTA:s that

Re: The journalling file system saga

2004-05-13 Thread Robert Storey
Is anyone remotely interested in this? Yes, for the reasons mentioned below, and strictly for practical personal use because I'd love to be able to share data between FreeBSD and Linux ;) Right now, FBSD offers the option to mount ext2 if you've compiled that into the kernel - I'd be

Re: The journalling file system saga

2004-05-13 Thread Peter Schuller
Yes, for the reasons mentioned below, and strictly for practical personal use because I'd love to be able to share data between FreeBSD and Linux ;) Right now, FBSD offers the option to mount ext2 if you've compiled that into the kernel - I'd be happy to see a reiserfs option as well. If